Abstract

CAMALHAO, Serafim  and  CAMALHAO, Isabel. The methodological thesis: Methodology seen as theory and theory as methodology. NTQR [online]. 2022, vol.14, e592.  Epub Aug 01, 2022. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.14.2022.e592.

The methodological thesis os an old project that aims to see the work in the Social Sciences in the methodological point of view instead of the theoretical. The objectives of this proposal can be several. The main are to evaluate scientific work that have been done, validating it and improving one research during his corse or after the same. What is proposed in this article isn’t new, it has been found in many methodological books with good and bad practices, as well how it should proceed. In the research done to this article, it wasn’t found woks that from the beginning to the end done in the point of view technical and methodological. The presented proposal invites the researcher to do a thesis inside other theses. Reversing the poles, the methodology is seen as theorys and theory as methodology. In this reversion the main attention is given to the methodology, deepen it and Going beyond the mere procedure, just as, all elements due reduction process had been omitted. The methodological theses are mainly qualitative, neither aim for universality nor statistical representativity, but the transversality and intersectionality of methods and techniques. Although it is one qualitative methodology, there are one openness either to mixed methodology or quantitative. The main idea argues that any research qualitative or quantitative is unique because it is done in a social, cultural, economic, and temporal unique. The methods and techniques are transversal to all contexts, but the tale specific forms before the specificity of each research. In this field it can be used either abduction other the analytical induction. In the end, the outcome is the development of a critical eye and to be aware of the work done.

Keywords : Methodology; Theory; Reflexivity; Conscience; Meaning..

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