Enfoque de la investigación

Acción participación como una metodología cualitativa - editorial

Abstract

Methodology (from the Greek mara “beyond”, odos “way”, and logo “study”), it refers to the group of procedures based on logic principles, used to reach a range of goals that rule a scientific research. Method and methodology are two different concepts. Method is the procedure used to reach the goals, in this case, the ones defined in a research project, and the methodology is the
study of the method, which is directly related to the epistemological posture, which is assumed and guarantees a scientific approach. During the middle of the last century, social research was labeled under a quantitative approach, positivist; in which experimentation, objectivity, validity and reliability prevailed as necessary requirements. Later on, a new approach was assumed
towards qualitative perspectives, making use of flexible designs, but rigorous, which have allowed the evolution of knowledge through this new posture, without ruling out its scientific nuance.