Puru DubeyAIR 86 · CSE 2025 · 166 wordsTheir whole copy
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Phenomenology is a methodology which treats social reality as a construct due to active decisions by social actors. As a methodology, it departs radically from scientific methodology.
PHENOMENOLOGY DEPARTS FROM SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY
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Phenomenology critiques the assumption that social reality is objective. It rather holds that it is socially constructed and hence can't be studied by scientific methodology. Ex: meaning of fashion keeps changing everyday.
Rejects the idea that objectivity is possible : Phenomenology holds that people including the researcher study experience reality as phenomena in their mind internally which ends the possibility of 'objective description'.
Rejects Fact-Value separation: Phenomenology argues how facts & values are intertwined and facts are themselves socially constructed. Ex: 'Development', 'Justice' are matters of fact and value.
Reject causality: Phenomenologists reject the idea of causality as they focus on internal states of mind of social actors. For them, the objective world does not exist.
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Instead, they call for the study of individual and reflexive nature of social reality.