AP/SOSC 4003 6.00

Phenomenology For Social Science

As the critical study of appearances, experiences and interpretations, phenomenology provides both method and theory for social scientific inquiry. Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty are pillars of phenomenology who offer complementary strategies for comparing and contrasting divergent life-worlds at everyday and societal levels. Topics include bracketing, the clearing, and the visible and invisible.