ABORDO, BETO, MENDEZ, PATALINGHUG

 The objective of phenomenology is the direct investigation and description of

phenomena as consciously experienced, without theories about their causal
explanations or their objective reality.
 It therefore seeks to understand how people construct meaning.

 Phenomenology comes from the academic disciplines of philosophy and

psychology, and it is based upon the work of the 20th century philosopher
Edmund Husserl, which was then later developed by Heidegger.
 An approach to qualitative research that focuses on the commonality of a
lived experience within a particular group
 Clarify and enlighten how people understand and comprehend a certain
phenomena
 Helps gather detailed information through qualitative methods
 Interviews
 Discussions

 Collect data without being perceived as useless assumptions

 Contribute to research that relate to experiences
 Find out an individual’s experiences and perceptions from their
perspectives
 FUNDAMENTAL GOAL
 Arrive at a description of the nature of the particular phenomenon
 A phenomenological study often involves the four steps of:
 Bracketing
 process of identifying and holding in abeyance any preconceived beliefs and opinions
that one may have about the phenomenon that is being researched.
 The researcher 'brackets out' (as in mathematics) the world and any presuppositions that
he or she may have in an effort to confront the data in as pure a form as possible.
 This is the central component of phenomenological reduction - the isolation of the pure
phenomenon versus what is already known of the phenomenon.
 Intuiting
 occurs when the researcher remains open to the meaning attributed to the phenomenon
by those who have experienced it.
 Analyzing
 involves such processes as coding (open, axial, and selective), categorizing and making
sense of the essential meanings of the phenomenon.
 Describing
 researcher comes to understand and to define the phenomenon.
 Developed by Husserl in 1970
 Husserl’s Phenomenology Approach (Husserlian Phenomenology)
 Knowledge of humans’ experiences, perceived while in the state of conscious is worth of
contribution in research and studies
 put aside researchers own knowledge during studies so that they can grasp the essence
of the participant’s experiences without being biased
 Holds the idea that the perception can combine with ideas and judgments to a
certain extent
 Connection between noema of the experience (the ‘what’) and the noesis (the how
it is experienced)
 Heidegger (Husserl’s student) preceded descriptive method with interpretive
phenomenology
 More intricate than descriptive phenomenology because of its impermanence.
 Time is a factor
 Hermeneutic - Hermes
 Name of a Greek God that is responsible in interpreting messages between God

 Hermeneutics
 Process and method that bring out and make appear of what’s hidden in human
experiences and goes beyond their experiences in search of the meaning in their life
practices
 Focused on what humans experience rather than what they consciously know
 seeks to understand how people construct meaning.
 investigates experiences as they are lived by those experiencing them,
and the meaning that these people attach to them.
 Critical truths about reality are grounded in peoples lived experiences.
 four aspects of these lived experiences, namely:
 lived space;
 lived body;
 lived time;
 lived human relations.

 consists mainly of in-depth conversations.

 researcher and the informants are often considered as co-participants.
 is person-centred rather than being concerned with social processes,
cultures, or traditions.
 A Phenomenological Study of Delusions in Schizophrenia
 Indian J Psychiatry, 1986

 Qualitative Thematic Analysis of the Phenomenology of near-death experiences

 PLoS One, 2018

 Pain Experience in Hemophilia Patients: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

 Masoume Rambod, PhD, Farkhondeh Sharif, PhD, […], and Kate Khair, PhD

 Maintenance of Tobacco Withdrawal by Former Smokers: A Phenomenological

Study
 Rev Gaucha Enferm, 2017

 A Phenomenological Study of Non-LGBT Students with LGBT-Q Parents

 Bourdon, Thomas
 https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/com9640epstein/?p=543
 http://wileyvws.com/wiley_sites/9781405183376/phenomenology.htm
 https://www.ukessays.com/essays/psychology/purpose-of-phenomenology.php