Investigación Cuantitativa (Monismo Metodológico) y Cualitativa (Dualismo Metodológico)

El status epistémico de los resultados de la investigación en las disciplinas sociales

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ID6140815
AuthorsHéctor Manuel Soto Salas (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author), Héctor Salas
Year2011
Issue40
Pages1-21
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCinta de moebio (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0717-554X • E-ISSN: 0717-554X
PublisherSciELO Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo (ANID) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4067/s0717-554x2011000100001
OpenAlexW2013150447
SCIELO_PIDS0717-554X2011000100001
LanguageES
Citations received1
References cited5

This essay analyses the positions which are related to the quantitative and qualitative research models in the social disciplines; it examines the universality and invariance of scientific laws; and it presents the inadequacy of the conceptions of logical positivism and of classical epistemology, as well as the new concepts and two of the models which arose there from.Then, based on this it evaluates the epistemic status of research findings from both models, the scientific status of the disciplines and their theories and the rationality of the agreements reached over research conclusions: the limitations of scientific laws show the plausibility of quantitative research, which can be associated with the epistemic values of truth, intersubjectivity and susceptibility of replication, and its conclusions can be considered as genuine knowledge, though not those of qualitative research.But these philosophical notions leave open the controversy over the appropriate conceptions to explore the social phenomena

Humanities · Educational Research and Science Teaching · Philosophy

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