Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān (Dec 2014)

Phenomenological Study of Youth Lifestyles in Tehran

  • Mehdi Fallah,
  • Bijan Zare,
  • Nima Bardiafar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7508/ijcr.2014.27.001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 3
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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This study has tried to investigate and reconstruct the meaning of life style in a phenomenological approach among young people in Tehran city. Most research done on this issue has been described by adopting deductive strategy and underlying prefabricated theories.While the phenomenological method focuses on how humans meant their experiences and transform them to collective and personal form of their consciousness. It also requires a methodologicalunderstandingthat how humans experience these phenomena. Researcher to collect such data is necessary to engage in-depth interviews with people who have directly experienced the phenomenon of interest that means they have Lived experience that is in contrast with second order experience and the operating variables that derived from metanarratives. Thus, we have distinguished four major lifestyles of young people’s lives in Tehran according to Husserl’s epoche manner and meet schutz’s typification criteria that contain; pleasure seeking - aesthetic lifestyle, functionalistic, subcultural and passive.

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