First-Person Methods Toward an Empirical Phenomenology of Experience
In the history of psychology, ?rst-person methods, such as introspection, have come into disrepute in favor of the experimental approach. Yet the results of ?rst-person research – such as the famous studies provided by Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his Phenome
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PRACTICE OF RESEARCH METHOD Volume 3 Series Editor Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria, Canada
Scope Research methods and research methodology are at the heart of the human endeavors that produce knowledge. Research methods and research methodology are central aspects of the distinction between folk knowledge and the disciplined way in which disciplinary forms of knowledge are produced. However, in the teaching of research methods and methodology, there traditionally has been an abyss between descriptions of how to do research, descriptions of research practices, and the actual lived research praxis. The purpose of this series is to encourage the publication of books that take a very practical and pragmatic approach to research methods. For any action in research, there are potentially many different alternative ways of how to go about enacting it. Experienced practitioners bring to these decisions a sort of scientific feel for the game that allows them to do what they do all the while expressing expertise. To transmit such a feel for the game requires teaching methods that are more like those in highlevel sports or the arts. Teaching occurs not through first principles and general precepts but by means of practical suggestions in actual cases. The teacher of method thereby looks more like a coach. This series aims at publishing contributions that teach methods much in the way a coach would tell an athlete what to do next. That is, the books in this series aim at praxis of method, that is, teaching the feel of the game of social science research.
First-Person Methods Toward an Empirical Phenomenology of Experience
By Wolff-Michael Roth Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt, Queensland, Australia
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Contents
Preface
vii
Epigraph
1
1 Towards a Rigorous Praxis of First-Person Method
3
PART I: ON SENSING AND SENSE
9
2 On Vision and Seeing
15
3 On Tact and Touching
43
4 Hearing and Listening
61
5 Tasting and Smelling
75
PART II: MUNDANE EXPERIENCES
89
6 Memory
93
7 On Becoming Significant
109
8 On Being and Presence
123
9 Crises and Suffering as Sources of Learning
137
10 Thinking and Speaking
147
PART III: EKSTATIC KNOWING & LEARNING
159
11 Problem Solving
165
12 Work, Primary
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