Abstract

DIAZ, Esther. The construction of an expanded methodology. Salud colectiva [online]. 2010, vol.6, n.3, pp.263-274. ISSN 1851-8265.

Current methodological approaches tend to adhere to the model impartedby modernity. In spite of excesses of power and multinational investigations that test products on "human guinea pigs" or others that are aimed at developing the defense industry, scientific research continues to have its prestige exploited by, among others, those who profit from the products of knowledge. The present reflection attempts to dismantle some assumptions that form the basis of methodological fundamentalisms without exhausting the procedural discussions in qualitative-quantitative polarity or, at best, in method triangulation. The article presents perspectives that do not endeavor to overcome or negate the established procedures, but rather to analyze some of the mechanisms of power that sustain these procedures, and for which operant (and universally unrecognized) positivism is beneficial. The opportunity to open new methodological and theoretical paths is explored.

Keywords : Epistemology; Ethics; History.

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