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This innovative introduction to research in the social sciences guides students and new researchers through the maze of research traditions, cultures of inquiry and epistemological frameworks. It introduces the underlying logic of ten cultures of inquiry: ethnography; quantitative behavioral science; phenomenology; action research; hermeneutics; evaluation research; feminist research; critical social science; historical-comparative research; and theoretical research. It clarifies conceptual and intellectual traditions in research, and puts researchers firmly in the investigative saddle - able to choose, justify, and explain the intellectual framework and personal rationale of their research.
Phenomenological Inquiry
Phenomenological Inquiry
Phenomenology is used to obtain knowledge about how we think and feel in the most direct ways. Its focus is what goes on within the person in an attempt to get to and describe lived experience in a language as free from the constructs of the intellect and society as possible. At its root, the intent is to understand phenomena in their own terms—to provide a description of human experience as it is experienced by the person herself.
“To the things themselves!” was the maxim of Edmund Husserl, a founder of phenomenological philosophy.
Phenomenology thus provides the irreducible datum of that human behavior that is logically prior to all social behavior. In ideal circumstances, the researcher, as self-observer or participant-observer, gains direct knowledge of ...
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