What Is Reduction in Phenomenology, Really? An Attempt to Get to the Essence of the Phenomenon
International Journal of Qualitative Methods July 1, 2025 Marius Bytautas
Since the late 1970s, phenomenology has been widely used in nursing, education, psychology, and other disciplines. As one should have expected, its increasing popularity made this methodology vulnerable to criticism. Various authors began to question the credibility and usefulness of phenomenological research. Among the arguments, the vagueness of central concepts is the most notable. Indeed,...