The problem of equality in everyday life

The aim of our paper is to examine the notion of equality in Alfred Schutz’s phenomenological perspective paying special attention to the emergence of the problem of equality in everyday life. We will develop Schutz’s position concerning equality and inequality in everyday life. We will maintain that the problem of equality in everyday life emerges through the experience of inequality. As a way to find out the emergence of that problem, we will try to find the origin and the way in which inequality is experienced in everyday life. In doing so, it will be argued that problems related to the subjective and objective implications of equality arise with the concepts of imposed group membership and imposed systems of relevances specifically when the Other’s subjectivity is not recognized as such.