Post by mgm on Dec 2, 2017 0:18:45 GMT
Proponents of analyzing phenomena from a phenomenological perspective object to attempting to separate the phenomena into person variables and situation variables. Why?
Looking to explain behaviour, thought and action by analyzing situational and personal variables is seen as too atomistic from a phenomenological perspective and puts too much emphasis on cause and effect. They believe in a more collaborative process between people, known as joint action, in which new things emerge which could not have been predicted if all of the information about the individuals and the situation were known. From this viewpoint, phenomena is seen less as people and situations as distinct units interacting with one another and more as a fluid movement between interconnected forces, the boundaries between which are ill defined, making it impossible to distinguish between clear causes and clear effects.
Looking to explain behaviour, thought and action by analyzing situational and personal variables is seen as too atomistic from a phenomenological perspective and puts too much emphasis on cause and effect. They believe in a more collaborative process between people, known as joint action, in which new things emerge which could not have been predicted if all of the information about the individuals and the situation were known. From this viewpoint, phenomena is seen less as people and situations as distinct units interacting with one another and more as a fluid movement between interconnected forces, the boundaries between which are ill defined, making it impossible to distinguish between clear causes and clear effects.