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  1. The philosophical perspective, founded by the
  2. German philosopher Husserl, that in the
  3. social sciences concentrates on phenomena as
  4. objects of perception (rather than as facts
  5. or occurrences that exist independently) in
  6. attempting to examine the ways people think
  7. about and interpret the world around them. It
  8. has been practised by the philosophers
  9. Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. In
  10. contrast to positivism or `scientific'
  11. philosophy, phenomenology sees reality as
  12. essentially relative and subjective, and uses
  13. such tools as ethnomethodology and symbolic
  14. interactionism to focus on the structure of
  15. everyday life.
  16.