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Phenomonology Summary

Okay so I understand ethnomethodology is looking at the methods we use to interpret the world, but phenomonology is harder to wrap my head around. Can anyone give me a brief summary in simple terms, what it actually looks at?

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Chris.Livesey

Phenomenology in Less Than 100 Words…

1. The world consists of “phenomena”: that is, “things” that are brought into being by – and only exist in – the consciousness of individuals.

2. That which we call “reality”, in other words, is simply (a word I use very loosely) the objectified outcome of human consciousness (in even simpler terms, if we believe something to be real, it is real).

3. These phenomena can, therefore, only be experienced – they have no separate and individual existence outside of the way we experience them.

4. It involves subjectivism, rather than objectivism (hence its rejection of positivist principles).