Isabel is listening to a piece of classical music and tape recording all her feelings and impressions as she experiences them. isabel is using a technique similar to the research methodology of:

I believe the answer is: Structualism

Structualism refers to a way of thinking that see each small elements that make up a certain feeling or culture need to be understood before we can understand a the feeling or culture in  much broader sense. Structuralism was first introduced in 1900s, by the studies initiated by the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure

earlier philosophers whose work influenced the enlightenment included bacon, descartes, locke, and spinoza. the major figures of the enlightenment included beccaria, diderot, hume, kant, montesquieu, rousseau, adam smith, and voltaire. it spread the ideas of the enlightenment across europe and beyond.