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This chapter will discuss two separate but closely related areas of social theory. The first area to be addressed is that of phenomenology. This will commence with a review of the ideas of the founding father of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. It will then go on to discuss how Alfred Schutz combined these ideas with the work of Max Weber in order to develop a social phenomenology This examination of Schutz is followed by the nursing example of Janice Morse et al.’s ‘The phenomenology of comfort’ (1994). The chapter then moves on to review the efforts of Harold Garfinkel and other ethnomethodologists to operationalise social phenomenology into a practical research strategy. The chapter concludes with a nursing example of the use of ethnomethodology, in the form of Len Bowers’ (1992b) study of the community psychiatric nurse in the patient’s home.
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Porter, S. (1998). Phenomenology and ethnomethodology. In: Social Theory and Nursing Practice. Sociology and Nursing Practice Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14441-9_6
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