Introduction to Phenomenology
Keywords: Phenomena/phenomenon, lived-experience, bracketing/epoche, descriptive phenomenology, existential phenomenology, interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA).
What is Phenomenology?Phenomenology is "the essence of a phenomenon as lived (e.g., the experience of healing, etc.) by a person who has had the experience" (Willis, Sullivan-Bolyai, Knafl, & Cohen, 2016). Click the link in the menu to find out more. |
HOw does phenomenology in research work?Phenomenological research is taking subjective data and asking questions about a person's lived experience and analyzing it (Ellis, 2016). There is no "straightforward" way to turn an experience into a data point, leaving the collected data up for interpretation (Høffding & Martiny, 2016). Click the link in the menu to find out more. |
Why does Phenomenology matter?Phenomenological research is important due to it's subjective approach, which captures the essence of lived experiences in individuals rather than concrete, black-and-white data from putting information into organized categories (Willis, Sullivan-Bolyai, Knafl, & Cohen, 2016). Click the link in the menu to find out more. |
“It is a distinctive feature of social research that the ‘objects’ studied are in fact ‘subjects’, in the sense that they have consciousness and agency. Moreover, unlike physical objects or animals, they produce accounts of themselves and their worlds.” (Høffding & Martiny, 2016) |
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