Cologne-Leuven Summer School of Phenomenology 2016 "Genetic Phenomenology"

Empirical Phenomenology : A Qualitative Research Approach ( The Cologne Seminars )

This paper introduces the philosophical foundation and practical application of empirical phenomenology in social research. The approach of empirical phenomenology builds upon the phenomenology of the philosophers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and the sociologist Alfred Schütz, but considers how their more philosophical and theoretical insights can be used in empirical research. It aims a...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Qualitative research methodology: phenomenology

There are two qualitative and quantitative research paradigms in the methodological debates. Phenomenological approach is one of the most important methods in the qualitative researches. ‎Depending on researcher’s view on study phenomenon, this approach is divided into two main ‎methods of descriptive and interpretive. Despite the many similarities between the two methods, ‎th...

Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology

H ± phenomenology

In supersymmetric models with explicit breaking of R-parity the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) may be the lightest stau, τ̃1. Such a scenario would provide a clear sign of R-parity violating SUSY, although its phenomenology may resemble that of a charged Higgs boson, H. We discuss various ways of distinguishing a LSP τ̃1 from H ± at future colliders, and address the case of τ̃1 mimicking t...