SOC244H1 Chapter Notes -Care2, Participant Observation
Document Summary
Theories provide complex and comprehensive conceptual understandings of things that cannot be pinned down: how societies work, how organizations operate, why ppl interact in certain ways. Theories give researchers different lenses" through which to look at complicated problems and social issues, focusing their attention on different aspects of the data and providing a framework within which to conduct their analysis. Originally developed to explain how individuals give meanings to social phenomena in. Phenomenology aims to provide accounts that offer an insight into the subjective lived their everyday lives. experience of individuals. Focus is on providing research accounts for individuals in a specific setting. In general, studies that draw upon a phenomenological approach gather data in the form of in depth semistructured or unstructured interviews and personal documents such as diaries. Phenomenology as a result of its specific, empiral focus on the individual experience is an example of a micro level theory within this philosophical orientation.
