WEEK 4 - PHENOMENOLOGY Flashcards
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what is phenomenology
focus on understanding human experince or lived experience of people
purpose of phenomenology
seeks to make sense of peoples experience - how phenomenon is perceived - felt, judged and remebered, made sense of anf spoken about
how can you capture phenomenon?
in depth interviews
is phenomenology a positivist assumption?
yes
what is bracketing?
- bracketing used to expose biases and assumptions
- assumption that researchers can seperate personal knowledge about a topic from their experience
DIH = DIE
phenomenological methods
- Descriptive - to provide rich and detail description
- Interpretive - move from description towards understanding and searching for relationship (lonely ass)
- Hermenutics - focus on interpreting a phenomenon or meaning making
I Ate Dusty Rats
Phenomenological reduction or bracketing steps
Intuiting - remain open to meanings attributed to phenomenon by those who have experienced it (basically just listening and shutting the fuck up)
Analyzing - extracting significant statement, making sense of the meanings and reporting themes (psychoanalyzing someone after you stfu)
Describing - occurs when researches comes to understand and define the phenomenon
Reflexivity - bracketing achieved through journaling of ones own conceptions (you wanna talk, write it instead but still do stfu)
remember DIH=DIE, were talking about I
Interpretive phenomenology
- here you actually dont stfu
- youre trying to fill in the gaps of knowledge you have (which is not a lot) with the other person so there is no bracketing
- more on human experience through personal preconception to understand key meanings
Hermeneutic circle
- interpretation is not a linear process
- a back and forth iterative movement
- understanding enhance through interactive process
Descriptive or phenomenon?
1.decribe the nature of a phenomenon
2.to interpret/ understang meaning of a phenomenon
3.nature of experience
4.meaning of experience
5.no bracketing
6.bracketing
- descriptive
- interpretive
- descriptive
- interpretive
- interpretive
- descriptive
ISDDD
Process of conducting a phenomenological research
Identifying a phenomenon of interest –> structuring the study —> data gathering —> data analysis —> describing finding
ISDDD
Identifying a phenomenon
- people who have firsthand experience of an event/situation
- issues common to everyday exstance of people
- centered on live experience as starting point of the research
ISDDD
Structure of the study
- guided by question that relates to human experience
- bracketing used - set aside personal biases when engaging with participants, allows to pursue interest of participants
- identify personal biases about phenomenon of interest
- clarifying and documenting personal experince and beliefs
sample to begin with
usually small - 3-8 people
ISDDD
data gathering
- oral data, in depth conversation
- open ended questions to guide participants
- researcher probes for clarification and insight - transcript or written records can be clarified with researcher
- data saturation - guide decision when not enough data is collected
ISDDD
data analysis
- begins with data collection
- coding - identifying shift of participants by highlighting significant phrases in participant story
- distilling of each significant phrase to express central meaning
- grouping segments with similar central meaning
- final synthesis of essences described the lived experience
Which of the following best describes people who have rich experiences of
the culture being studied?
key informants
The process referred to as constant comparison involves comparing:
data from one participant against data from others for similarities and differences
Arrange in order: process of conducting a phenomenological approach
1. data gathering
2. decribing findings
3. structuring the study
4. data analysis
5. identifying a phenemenon of interest
5-3-1-4-2
