by admin | Jul 3, 2024
“Hermeneutic phenomenology” is the name of a method of abstemious reflection on the basic structures of the lived experience of human existence. The term method refers to the way or attitude of approaching a phenomenon. Abstemious means that reflecting on experience...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
In qualitative research models such as grounded theory, ethnography, and concept analysis, the idea of theme and theme analysis possess different meanings from the way that “theme” is used in phenomenological inquiry. In grounded theory, thematic analysis is seen as...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
Anecdotes have enjoyed low status in scholarly writings, since, in contrast to historical accounts or reports, they rest on dubious factual evidence. The shady reputation of anecdote may derive from the sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius who called his...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
Back to the Thing Itself—What Is the Concrete? For phenomenological research, it is especially imperative to understand what the concrete can mean and signify. Some equate the concrete with the empirical and the factual. The concrete is referred to as the...
by admin | Jul 3, 2024
A qualitative text can suddenly open up to a fundamental insight that cannot be reduced to a conceptual phrase or an intellectual statement. Instead, there is a moment of felt meaningfulness or sense. It is this desire for the experience of meaningfulness that is at...
