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• Hermeneutical phenomenology is explored within the social science context.
• It is in Quarter 2, Module 1.

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Key Concepts

• Content standard focuses on understanding key concepts/approaches in Social Sciences.
• Performance standard focuses on interpreting experiences using Social Sciences and evaluating strengths/weaknesses.
• Competency involves hermeneutic phenomenology to analyze data significance.
• Learning outcomes include summarizing the theory/concept behind hermeneutic phenomenology.

Hermeneutic Circle

• Understanding individual parts relies on comprehending the whole.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology

• Dialogue, interpretation, preunderstanding and textual meaning are fundamental.

Foremost Representative

• Hans-Georg Gadamer is the foremost representative of the movement.

Qualitative Research Methodology

• Hermeneutic phenomenology maintains close ties to phenomenological philosophy.

Phenomenology

• Focuses on studying experience and our perception of reality.

"Language of the heart"

• Hans-Georg Gadamer stated, "Language of the heart can never be fully expressed through language, something more still to be said to in order to comprehend the matter fully."

Groundwork for Emergence

• Wilhelm Dilthey set the groundwork for emergence of phenomenology.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology - Features

• Emphasizes the nature of human experiences.

Crucial Context

• Context/conditions are crucial to the process of interpretation.

Useful Insights

• Observable insights useful for social researchers include how people behave, interact, answer in job interviews and arrange furniture.

Phenomenology Invites

• Phenomenology invites openness to variety of experiences.

Hermeneutics

• Is the interpretation of given data.

Lived experiences

• People's reactions depend on those experiences.

Unlocking of Terms:

• Transcendence: Existence or experience beyond the normal.
• Symbolic Interpretation: Purely in terms of what is represented.
• Methodically: Arranged in a systematic order.
• Epistemology: Theory of knowledge, validity and scope.
• Phenomenology: Approach that concentrates on direct experience.
• Transformative: Causes important and lasting change.

Typhoon example

• One's experience during a typhoon differs based on their role (student vs. working adult).

Hermeneutical Phenomenology

• Examines reality from an individual’s point of view.
• Perspective looks at individual's interpretation of reality and experience to understand how people develop ideas/interpretations of life.

Data

• Anything "given," including experiences.

Hermeneutics defined

• Interpreting data; phenomenology invites openness to experiences.

Hermeneutic Phenomenology explained

• It is the study of experience together with meaning.
• Analyzing experience and its meaning are interdependent.

Hermeneutics: Origin

• Hermeneutics originated from biblical studies and involves understanding/analyzing biblical interpretation.
• Bible scholars use hermeneutics to avoid misinterpreting scriptures.
• It involves analyzing historical/social contexts when passages were conceptualized, including careful analysis of the text structure.
• Hermeneutics has evolved into a tool for social analysis, useful for biblical and non-biblical texts (poetry, diaries etc).

Hermeneutics and the Writer's Bias

• Allows understanding materials based on the author's historical/social contexts.

Hermeneutics and the Reader's Bias

• Reading/interpreting texts is transformative and influenced by the reader's viewpoints/contexts.
• Readers are active agents who reimagine, reproduce, and reconstruct textual meanings.

Phenomenology Defined

• Philosophical movement, studying experience and how things are perceived.
• Claims reality consists of objects/events ("phenomena") as perceived by human consciousness.
• Includes imagination, thought, and feelings as part of human experience.
• Like interpretivism/social constructivism, it focuses on how people make sense of social interactions by attributing meaning.
• In phenomenology, the researcher-respondent relationship is participative/cooperative. Data gathering techniques include interviews, focus groups, and participant observation.
• The emphasis on personal viewpoints/values enhances the depth of social research.

Hermeneutical Phenomenology Defined

• Transcendental phenomenology discovers objective essences of lived experiences.
• Hermeneutics: Tradition, theory, philosophy, and practice of interpretation
• Hermeneutical Phenomenology: Used to interpret lived experience meaning communicated in text/symbolically.

Forefathers of Hermeneutic Phenomenology:

• Aurelius Augustine (354AD-430AD): Formed theoretical basis for language limitations, forgetfulness and language/tradition relationship.

• Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiemacher (1768-1834): Credited as systematically writing about hermeneutics/father of contemporary hermeneutics.

  • Advanced the understanding of interpretation:
    • Determining text meaning through author's intent/perspective
    • Method of grammatical/technical interpretation
    • Belief in misunderstanding as a natural state
    • Clear identification of the relationship between the part and the whole

• Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911): Understood human sciences as distinct from natural sciences; said "lived experiences," set the groundwork for phenomenology.

• Edmund Husserl (1859-1938): "The principal founder of phenomenology".

  • Developed transcendental phenomenology.

• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980): Continued Heidegger's project of phenomenology, emphasized self-consciousness.

Hermeneutical Phenomenology- Features

• Focus on inquiry as application.
• Emphasis on the situated nature of human experiences.
• Attention to the unspoken/undisclosed.
• Fusion of horizons includes practitioner identity in research activities.