From its very beginning, sociological thought has been concerned with a topic central to our daily lives: social distance. Since inception, the concept of social distance has referred to the relationships of familiarity and strangeness between social groups, which is experienced in the social world in terms of “We” and “They”. This article covers the main tenets of a Schutzian phenomenological approach to the study of social distance and group relationships. Specific focus is placed on the different attitudes and valuations of the in-group towards the out-group considered as a stranger, the invisible excess of meaning that emerges in these types of social relationships and the conceptual construction of the Other that explains the phenomenon of discrimination.

从一开始，社会学思想就关注我们日常生活的核心主题：社会距离。社会距离的概念从一开始就指代社会群体之间的熟悉和陌生的关系，这种关系在社会世界中以“我们”和“他们”的形式经历。本文涵盖了研究社会距离和群体关系的舒茨现象学方法的主要原则。特别关注的是内群体对被视为陌生人的外群体的不同态度和评价，在这些类型的社会关系中出现的无形的意义过剩，以及解释这种现象的他者的概念建构。歧视。