Teaching methodology at social research quantitative

Abstract

The methods and techniques of social research are divided in dualism between quantitative and qualitative. This paper intends to discuss this opposition from the relativization of techniques and the entire research and its internal logic. In addition, the text discusses the effects of this antagonism in the training of social science professionals, whether or not researchers, and own research practice. Finally this practice thought beyond the methodological and epistemological dualisms, must be thinked in its concrete historical and social reality in order to discard romanticized images that surround it. From this, it becomes possible to conceive of knowledge produced in social sciences as a result of power relations and hegemony within an academic field whose center lies outside the Brazilian and Latin American reality.

Keywords

• research methodology
• quantitative research
• social research