Review: Ulises Toledo Nickels (2012). Socio-fenomenología. El significado de la vida social cotidiana [Socio-Phenomenology. On the Meaning of Everyday Life]

Abstract

In this book the epistemologist of the social sciences Ulises TOLEDO NICKELS develops a reconstruction of a number of theoretical, epistemological, and methodological reflections and of  the findings of empirical research that, during the 20^th century and the beginning of the 21st, have resulted in the constitution of a science of society with phenomenology at its core. The intention of such a reconstruction is to show that the collection of perspectives within qualitative research is neither chaotic nor dispersed. On the contrary, it is possible to achieve a nomothetic appraisal from the link of motives, perspectives, and search strategies that, from the author's point of view, makes possible support of the idea that this stance represents a long term research program. To strengthen this argument, he uses the epistemological categories that belong to a scientific research program in accord with the contributions of the historical research of I. LAKATOS. With those categories, TOLEDO NICKELS goes in a polythetic direction (internal and external history) toward an investigation of the multiple streams and stages that underlie this scientific research program called socio-phenomenology.

URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs140144