![-647700-568325Phenomenology<br />5113382884We can only obtain knowledge about the world through our mental acts of categorising and giving meaning to our experiences.Any meaning given to an experience varies according to its social context. We ‘typify’ meanings to ensure that all members of society are in agreement.<br />,[object Object],Without the process of typification, social order would be impossible! <br />Members of a society have a shred ‘life world’ – a stock of shared typifications or commonsense knowledge that we use to make sense of our experience. It includes shared assumptions about the way things are, what different situations mean and what other people’s motives are. <br />A Criticisms of Phenomenology:<br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sociologyexchangecouk-shared-resource429-110915141334-phpapp02/85/SociologyExchange-co-uk-Shared-Resource-1-320.jpg)
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- 2. An example of this is religion. Religious ideas may start off in our consciousness but they become embodied in powerful structures such as churches, which then constrain us. For example; influencing laws about sexual relations.