From that it moved into the United States and was examined in the context of research on communicology, which was originally called symbolism(Embree, 1997). It was also found in research on music, education, and religion (Embree, 1997). .

             Phenomenology continued to spread and in the 1930s it worked its way into Italy, Korea, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, as well as into research that dealt with literature, architecture, and theater (Embree, 1997). After the Second World War it spread farther into Scandinavia, Portugal, and South Africa, as well as into research that dealt with ethnicity, gender, politics, and film (Embree, 1997). During the 1960s and 1970s phenomenology worked its way into China, Canada, and India, and into various other areas of research such as psychology, law, geography, and dance (Embree, 1997). .

             Continuing its spread in the 1980s and 1990s, it worked its way into Great Britain and was seen in research in pathology, medicine, ecology, and nursing (Embree, 1997). There have been four philosophical tendencies and various stages that have been seen in phenomenology and these are generally seen as being successively dominant, although they sometimes overlapped as well. Phenomenology, well-being over a century-old, is also seen as multidisciplinary and planetary as a movement (Embree, 1997). .

             There is an expanding agenda of various issues that are often related to phenomenology to some degree. Because it continues to be developed and because it has spread into many disciplines and across the entire planet, it is often seem to be the most significant of the philosophical movements within the 20th century. .

             Originally, the movement began with Husserl's work that dealt with an attack on psychologism. This psychologism was actually an attempt to take logic and absorb it into empirical psychology (Wilson, 2002). The work that dealt with this reflected not only an interest in logic but also in language, mathematics, and perception, as well as some various types of representations such as imagination, expectation, and memory (Wilson, 2002).