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Comparative Reflection

Comparative Reflection Phenomenological literature may contain material which has already addressed in a descriptive or an interpretive manner the very topic or question which preoccupies us. The work of other phenomenologists can be a source with which we can enter...

Conceptual Reflection

Conceptual Reflection Concept analysis is a philosophical technique for specifying differences of meaning. Concept analysis is the process of breaking up a complex conceptual or linguistic entity into its most basic semantic constituents. One assumption of conceptual...

Etymological Reflection

Etymological Reflection The search of etymological sources can be an important aspect of phenomenological “data collecting.” The first thing that often strikes us about any phenomenon is that the words we use to refer to the phenomenon have lost some of their original...

Exegetical Reflection

Exegetical reflection Exegetical reflection involves the critical, sensitive, and creative reading of related texts Exegetical reflection is the careful studying of related texts in search for insights or perspectives that may further your research. But exegetical...

Guided Existential Reflection

Guided Existential Reflection All phenomenological human science research efforts are really explorations into the structures of the human lifeworld, the lived world as experienced in everyday situations and relations. Four fundamental lifeworld themes (or...

Hermeneutic Interview Reflection

Hermeneutic Interview Reflection The hermeneutic interview has a conversational structure: it is oriented to sense-making and interpreting experiential meanings. The interview has a collaborative conversational structure that lends itself especially well to the task...