Fenomenologia nas pesquisas em turismo: análise das dissertações dos programas de pós-graduação no Brasil

Abstract

This paper brings the perspective of assessing the methodological procedures and verify the exact application of the phenomenological method to studies in the field of tourism in Brazil. An exploratory-descriptive research was carried out, where 570 (five hundred and seventy) dissertations of academic Master's courses, which were deposited between 2008 and 2016 in diverse institutions of Brazilian territory, were examined. The research had focus in understanding the methodological path into a data analysis by observing the processes and techniques used by the researchers involved, utilizing in-depth interviews, participant observation and experiential reports. From the discussion realized we found out that from 570 (five hundred and seventy) dissertations analyzed only 13 (thirteen) had adopted the phenomenological method. Given this fact, we concluded that, given the need for a complex theoretical foundation of the researcher, this method is of little application in the institutions involved in this field. Furthermore, the essential neutral position required for a researcher makes it very difficult to characterize a particular research as conducted by that method