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Phenomenological study on mulitple phenomena

Ben Stoddard April 27, 2020 at 09:14 825 views 1 comments
Can phenomenological studies research two phenomena at once?

I’m researching peoples engagement at two monuments and interviewed groups at both. The third set of interview questions was asking them to compare both monuments. Do phenomenological studies research two at once or am I doing something different here?

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I like sushi April 29, 2020 at 10:19 #407235
Reply to Ben Stoddard My personal take on this - and, to be clear, it is MY take on phenomenology - is that to refer to phenomenon within the framework of a phenomenological investigation as either ‘singular’ or ‘plural’ is against the main principle of phenomenology as a act of investigating consciousness withdrawn from the naturalistic world.

Of course, if you’re talking at natural phenomenon (meaning in the scientific naturalistic sense - via research and experimentation - then that’s fine as far as I can see).