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Information Research: an international electronic journal. Information science, Information management, Information systems, Information retrieval, Digital libraries, Information seeking behaviour, Information seeking behavior, World Wide Web, WWW. Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research — More Than Market Research - Gain The Information Advantage. Alfred Schutz, phenomenology and research methodology for information behaviour research. Professor T.D. Wilson Professor Emeritus University of Sheffield United Kingdom t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk Abstract Explores the phenomenological sociology of Alfred Schutz, with particular reference to his concern to understand the social distribution of knowledge in society. Phenomenology, per se, is a branch of philosophy, owing its origin to the work of Husserl [1] and later writers [e.g., Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, who took the ideas into existentialism].

Not surprisingly, phenomenology was attractive to psychological investigators in the early part of the 20th century and phenomenological psychology (alternatively called existential psychology or existential phenomenological psychology) exists as a thriving sub-discipline of psychology (Frankl, May, Perl), where the emphasis is on understanding a person's experience of a problematic situation. Schutz's methodological position is set out in three essays in Volume 1 of his Collected Papers [7]. HUSSERL, E. Web Counter. Research Methods Knowledge Base. Research interests.