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Mar 18, 2021 · Abstract. This article introduces ‘existence theory’ as a new approach to sociological theory and research. Existence theory starts from the assumption that people organise their lives around a limited set of existential milestones.
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- Life Feeling
- Life Energy (Vitality)
- Box 1.1 Three Basic Life Concepts
- THE BIG QUESTIONS OF LIFE
- The Basic Life Conditions Seen as Life Dilemmas
- Existential Psychology
- Humanistic Psychology
- Positive Psychology
Sometimes you are flooded with a poignant sensation of really being alive. At other times you feel tired, heavy, bored or dead. Most people have a strong preference for the sense of being alive, so it should be interesting to explore what characterises such life-world situations. In an interview study conducted by the author, a number of people wer...
Among the seriously ill, we encounter a phenomenon that nobody can explain. A doctor may have two patients with the same ailment, a fatal disease. They have the disease in approximately the same degree and the doctor’s prognosis is that they both have about six months left to live. Subsequently, one patient fades and dies quickly, while the other p...
Life feeling is the person’s spontaneous sense of being alive, being coherent and sensing a right to be here. Life courage is the person’s life feeling combined with their determination to conquer fear and anxiety in order to carry out their life project. Life energy or vitality is the ability of the organism to survive even under difficult circums...
Some animals seem to live an easy life. A dog or a cat, for example, may spend its whole life eating, sleeping, wandering about, looking, listening, mating and resting. The life of an animal is a life without problems (although life for some animals is periodically unpleasant or momentarily painful). It is a life without reflections on life. Human ...
The basic categories of life conditions proposed by Irvin Yalom, Medard Boss, Erich Fromm and related scholars share many traits. The differences between them are not contradictory in nature, they are in fact supplementary (Jacobsen, 2003). Irvin Yalom’s four categories form the core of this book’s structure, but I have expanded them to include dim...
Focuses on essential life dilemmas and the big questions of life Emphasises both the positive and negative dimensions of life Applies mainly phenomenological research methods (studying human life from within).
Focuses on human potentialities and virtues Emphasises the positive dimensions of life Applies mainly phenomenological research methods (studying human life from within).
Focuses on human potentialities and virtues Emphasises the positive dimensions of life Applies mainly natural science research methods (studying human life from without).
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This article introduces ‘existence theory’ as a new approach to sociological theory and research. Existence theory starts from the assumption that people organise their lives around a limited set of existential milestones.
A more technical definition of existentialism reveals the reason for its name. Existentialism is the study of existence. If you take existence to be everything that exists — such as chairs and tables, people and llamas — all philosophy, science, and religion would seem to have the same subject.
In their chapter, Kotarba and Melnikov propose that existential ideas have historically found a home and even become crucial to theoretical sociology as it has developed.
Dec 23, 2021 · This paper responds to the ‘existence theory’ proposed by Baert, Morgan and Ushiyama. It considers their proposals in light of two main thematics: the general account of human existence, and the more empirical sociology of existential milestones.
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Jan 11, 2008 · Existential psychology. The real person and the role of phenomenology. Can psychology be about life itself? Three basic life concepts: life feeling, life courage and life energy. The big questions of life. What is it to live authentically? What makes existential psychology different?
