3 papers in the library · publishing 2013-2018
Routledge eBooks October 10, 2018 Klaus G. Witz
This chapter focuses on two broad ways in which Cooley’s work is still intensely alive in the minds and work of researchers and philosophers today. First, in philosophy in the area of consciousness studies and in phenomenological studies in psychology, there has been a growing movement to the effect that accounts of “first person experience,” that is accounts of experience of the form “then I...
Qualitative Inquiry September 1, 2015 Klaus G. Witz
In elaborating their thesis that the subjective being of a person should be regarded as “a single consciousness-and-‘I’” or as “a single reality of consciousness” “from childhood to old age,” Witz and Goodwin based themselves only on their experience in qualitative research with adults (with the consciousness-and-“I” of participants who were adults aged 12 to 60 or so). The bulk of the present...
Qualitative Inquiry July 1, 2013 Klaus G. Witz, Hyunju Lee
This article discusses some thrusts and implications of Witz and Goodwin’s (2012) conception of “a single consciousness-and-‘I’ from childhood to old age” for getting a much larger understanding of the human being in Qualitative Research and Inquiry. Already portraiture tacitly assumes the human being to be essentially unlimited and capable of being subjectively understood by empathy and...