Phenomenology of Change Beyond Tolerating

Learning Outcomes

• Examine how research is conducted in adult development and aging
• Better understand the phenomenological descriptive method

What are some of the differences between quantitative methods and qualitative methods?

Describe bracketing with a sentence in your own words.

By the end of the semester you should be able to describe the steps of the descriptive phenomenological method:

1. Demarcating meaning units (breaking it apart)
2. Order the experience temporally (ordering)
3. Explicating the psychological significance (drawing out meaning)
4. Describing the situated structure (putting it altogether and summarizing)

In the reading, Skalski makes the distinction between the abstract notion tolerance and the actual lived experience of tolerating. What does Skalski say has happened to tolerance? Embree describes what the experience of tolerating implies. What does the lived experience of tolerating look like? In other words, what is the phenomenology of tolerating?