Samari, phenomenography will lead to better understanding of the perceptions and experiences of a phenomenon, while phenomenology will lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon itself.

I have added references for publications that address this question. I hope you find them helpful.

SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods

Ashworth, P., & Lucas, U. (1998). What is the “World” of Phenomenography? Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 42(4), 415–431. doi:10.1080/0031383980420407

The nature of phenomenographic research. J. A. Bowden & E. Walsh (Eds.), Phenomenography. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing.

Marton, F. (1981). Phenomenography - describing conceptions of the world around us. Instructional Science, 10(2), 177–200. doi:10.1007/BF00132516

Marton, F., & Booth, S. (1997). Learning and Awareness (p. 224). New Jersey, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hi Samira,

A little difficult to tell without a little more context to your study. One approach is more philosophically driven, while the other is more subjectivist and empirical. One relates your experiences to the phenomenon - while the other does not. One is more interested in the the whole - while the other is interested in parts of the whole. To a large degree, it would depend on your own relationship to the phenomenon - and whether your position would b from an emic or etic perspective - or both.

A subjective view would be a graph for each of the studied phenomena for the first while a more focused and in-depth coverage of the phenomenon at hand that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience in the second.

Hi dear colleagues

Thanks for your answers

I want to work on this field :the experience of HIV related stigma in women, their families and related stakeholders. I won't want to describe this experience

in myself view.The purpose of study is : describe this matter on their view, not researcher. Which of the methods is the more fit in my study? I like to knew your suggestions. Thank you

Samari, phenomenography will lead to better understanding of the perceptions and experiences of a phenomenon, while phenomenology will lead to a better understanding of the phenomenon itself.

I have added references for publications that address this question. I hope you find them helpful.

SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods

Ashworth, P., & Lucas, U. (1998). What is the “World” of Phenomenography? Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 42(4), 415–431. doi:10.1080/0031383980420407

The nature of phenomenographic research. J. A. Bowden & E. Walsh (Eds.), Phenomenography. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing.

Marton, F. (1981). Phenomenography - describing conceptions of the world around us. Instructional Science, 10(2), 177–200. doi:10.1007/BF00132516

Marton, F., & Booth, S. (1997). Learning and Awareness (p. 224). New Jersey, US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

I would say phenomenology provided you read about the philosophical underpinnings and the methodology. Good luck with your research.

Agree with Christa. Your clarified positioning Samira - related to your participants -would suggest phenomenography would offer the best outcome for what you want to achieve.

Thanks so much

Phenomenology (as a theory and framework)

You can use this together with Intersectionality Theory; check out my Thesis "Teenage Pregnancy, Contraception, Motherhood and Culture Issues Among African Australian Teenager Mothers with a Refugee Background in Greater Melbourne" from La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia.

I used the above together with other theories and frameworks.

Good Luck!

Mimmie

thank u dear Mimmie

Hello Samira, have you completed your research? If so, please share some findings and insights. Also would be happy to know the execution process of phenomenography. 

Regards.

Hi Samira, Please share the application process of phenomenography if you have worked on this approach.

best regards

I would add that phenomenography is also more interested in variations of perceptions, not just perceptions per se.

Dear Arif,

If you look for a phenomenography application, we wrote with colleagues a paper about our methodology in the context of media literacy in the workplace.

Chapter A Method Combining Deductive and Inductive Principles to Def...

All the best,

Jerry

Phenomenography is concerned with examining conceptions or experiences of a phenomenon and measuring the dimensions of variation of these experiences. It measures at the collective level, and derives categories of variation which form an 'outcome space'. Categories usually (though not always) have some hierarchical inclusive relationship. Categories of experience description are derived from meaning found in interview transcripts.

Phenomenography is described as 'non-dualist' as an ontological position: it says 'there is only one world, the world as it is experienced by the individual, this being intertwined. It is orientated towards subjectivism but also embraces individual constructivism. It is in the naturalist interpretivist paradigm. (This is as far as I can go, for now :) )

There are various disciplines that have used phenomenography, though it grew from educational research in Sweden. It is, for example, found in user experience studies, product design studies and studies involving learning with technology.

The following link (please refer to some more discussions and referred publications) may further help.

• What is the main difference between Phenomenology and Phenomenography ?: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_main_difference_between_Phenomenology_and_Phenomenography

Phenomenology applies to improve realisation of the phenomenon, however phenomenography is used to have better understanding of the perceptions and experiences of the phenomenon itself.