"Verstehen (German pronunciation: [f\u025B\u0250\u02C8\u0283te\u02D0\u0259n], literally: \"to understand\") in the context of German philosophy and social sciences in general, has been used since the late 19th century \u2013 in English as in German \u2013 with the particular sense of the \"interpretive or participatory\" examination of social phenomena."@en .