SOCI 413 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Time, Serendipity, Quo (Status Quo Album)
20 Nov 2018
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Understanding society: normative, descriptive, explanatory, describes, analyze a given phenomenon. Changing society: critical, describes and explains, what is wrong and what is right, what needs to be done to change it, get involved. Prior awareness, pre-awareness, what is known or understood before interpretation. Play an important role in the constitution of meaning & interpretation. Researcher to acknowledge and identity their pre- understandings. Readers of their research are clear about the study context and possible influencing factors: being in the world. Always embedded in a world of meaning. We are located in the social world. Shapes and is shaped by our ideas and practices. Research: experience linked to social cultural, economic & political contexts. Subjectivity of researchers and participants: life world existential themes. Themes enable interpretive phenomenologists to reflect on how people experience the world. Lived space (a felt space, the space in which we are located affect us, size and type impacts the world)
