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epoché

the placing in parentheses, or bracketing, ofany aspect(s) of reality for methodological purposes. For example, the analysis of'S tructure’ while holding individual agency in parenthesis (see Giddens, 1984). The concept of epoché derives from HUSSERL's PHENOMENOLOGY, where it was intended as a technique for allowing penetration to the underlying grounds of our knowledge by thinking away conventional, including scientific, assumptions. The device has been applied within sociology, particularly by SCHUTZ, and, influenced by him, also within ETHNOMETHODOLOGY, with the aim of uncovering the grounds of our everyday social knowledge and SOCIAL COMPETENCE.
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In the absence of differentiation between phenomena and facts (Bleeker 1974a, 227, 234; comp.: Bianchi 1974, 221), researchers have considered epoche and reduction similarly, as a form of unprejudiced concentration (Bleeker 1974b, 198-199; comp.: Widengren 1974, 258, 270-271) (more precisely, restraining from truth statements, causal connections or additional unapt (non-religious) contexts), not as stages of preparation for pure consciousness.
Die1970er Jahre waren die Epoche der neuen Naturschutzpioniere--nach jenen zu Beginn des 20.
(6) Questo ha permesso di mettere meglio a fuoco non tanto gli ambiti di maggiore diffusione nelle varie epoche (da quello mercantile nel Medioevo sino alla cucina nel Novecento) quanto i canali di irradiazione e penetrazione degli italianismi.
From there Patocka goes on to understand the move to the bracketing of the world in the epoche as a move of "factual freedom" that breaks free of "mere givenness as such." For we live "in principle in horizons which first bestow full meaning on the present and [thus] ...
29) (11), delineando la epoche como el elemento que orienta hacia un conocimiento dado absolutamente libre de incertidumbre.
Recognizing their biases and bracketing their assumptions provided the space for epoche; hence, their assumptions and perspectives minimally affected the reporting of findings and the results of this study (Hays & Wood, 2011).
To arrive at this understanding, researchers are called to engage in an epoche process that entails an effort to become conscious of one's own experiences related to the phenomenon being studied by identifying personal judgments before and during data collection (Moustakas, 1994).
1 November 2017 - Germany based International expert organisation Dekra has acquired Spain-based security testing and evaluation company Epoche and Espri S.L.U.