Phenomenology and social research

Henrik Gert Larsen

Chapter 26 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences, 2026, pp 186-193 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Phenomenology is often conceived as the study of lived experiences and misconstrued as a form of thematic analysis of interview content. In fact, phenomenology is both a theory of the constitution of and a range of prescribed methods to study how our lifeworld constitutes a correlate of the lived experience. This entry presents the origin and development of the phenomenological movement and covers the schism between Husserl and Heidegger that gave rise to what today is a heterogeneous field covering transcendental phenomenology, phenomenological psychology as well as existential, hermeneutic, and critical phenomenological schools, and their associated research methods. Hereunder, the epoché, reduction as well as distanciation.

Keywords: Phenomenology; Lived Experience; Dasein; Emplotment; Epoché; Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781803921297
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