Epistemological Considerations

Abstract

The social actors that participate in the culture can not be alien to the variations or pre-established forms of it; so in the role of researchers, we start from two basic premises. The first is that, when approaching the object of the inquiry, it is not done in an unprepared way, but that this approach is based on a personal interest, which implies prior knowledge. The second is that by becoming observers in turn participates in the phenomenon that is observed, contributing to its construction.

Based on these basic ideas, the position assumed in the research is defined as qualitative, so that the exercise is aimed at understanding rather than explaining; This means that the interest is to grasp the meanings and interpretations that are constructed and shared by the protagonists involved in the research.