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Phenomenological description has found widespread application within psychology and the cognitive sciences. For example, Maurice Merleau-Ponty is the first well known phenomenologist to openly mingle the results of empirical research with phenomenologically descriptive research.
In qualitative phenomenological research, lived experience refers to the first-hand involvement or direct experiences and choices of a given person, and the knowledge that they gain from it, as opposed to the knowledge a given person gains from second-hand or mediated source.
Generative historicist phenomenology studies how meaning—as found in human experience—is generated in historical processes of collective experience over time. Genetic phenomenology (sometimes " phenomenology of genesis ") studies the emergence of meanings of things within the stream of experience.
For example, the act of seeing a horse qualifies as an experience, whether one sees the horse in person, in a dream, or in a hallucination. 'Bracketing' the horse suspends any judgement about the horse as noumenon , and instead analyses the phenomenon of the horse as constituted in intentional acts.
This interpretation has been developed through many scholarly articles, and especially through three books: The Self and Its Body in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, [9] Reading Hegel's Phenomenology, [10] and Infinite Phenomenology: The Lessons of Hegel's Science of Experience. [11]
Phenomenology or phenomenological psychology, a sub-discipline of psychology, is the scientific study of subjective experiences. [1] It is an approach to psychological subject matter that attempts to explain experiences from the point of view of the subject via the analysis of their written or spoken words. [ 2 ]
Phenomenology within sociology, or phenomenological sociology, examines the concept of social reality (German: Lebenswelt or "Lifeworld") as a product of intersubjectivity. Phenomenology analyses social reality in order to explain the formation and nature of social institutions. [ 1 ]
Experimental phenomenology has been defined as the investigation of phenomenological practices and their effects. [1] It has roots in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology. [2]One of the first phenomenologists to use the term experimental phenomenology was Don Ihde, [3] who explored how intentional variations of experiencing can affect classical perceptual illusions, such as the Necker cube.