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A Plasticidade na Investigação: Controvérsias e Complexidades Epistemológicas
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O processo crítico-reflexivo na investigação das ciências
sociais, mormente nas ciências policiais – intrinsecamente plurais,
complexas e multidisciplinares – exige ao investigador um bom
domínio da diversidade de expressões e da terminologia
correspondente, a par de um conhecimento aprofundado dos
principais “blocos de construção” da investigação social genérica
(Grix, 2002; Hay, 2007), permeáveis a diferentes tradições eruditas e, muitas vezes, a visões concorrentes. A aparente relação direcional,
mas não necessariamente determinista, entre aqueles alicerces da
investigação e a emergência de uma propensão plástica, dialética e
complementar entre as teorias e metodologias, parece apontar para
soluções eventualmente mais ricas, rigorosas e completas dos objetos
de estudo, conquanto permitam a corroboração e a análise das
imperfeições delas resultantes e/ou escolhas efetuadas.
Este exercício analítico debruça-se precisamente sobre as
controvérsias e complexidades implícitas às doutrinas fundamentais
que precedem a formação de novo conhecimento, realçando o
potencial da Plasticidade – enquanto novo conceito lógico, (ainda)
indeterminado, de criação, combinação e maleabilidade – no
refinamento da forma final como aqueles componentes-chave da
investigação são concebidos, harmonizados e incorporados numa
estratégia multifacetada que se pretende que seja a melhor e mais
completa aproximação ao objeto de estudo, sujeita a uma perene
vigilância epistemológica.
The critical-reflective process in social science research, especially in the police science – intrinsically plural, complex, and multidisciplinary – requires the researcher to have a good command of the variety of terms and the corresponding terminology, together with an in-depth knowledge of the main "building blocks" of generic social research (Grix, 2002; Hay, 2007), permeable to different erudite traditions and often competing visions. The apparent directional relationship, but not necessarily deterministic, between those foundations of research and the emergence of a plastic, dialectic and complementary propensity between theories and methodologies seems to point to possibly richer, more rigorous, and complete solutions of the objects of study, while allowing the corroboration and analysis of the resulting imperfections and/or choices made. This analytical exercise focuses precisely on the controversies and complexities implicit in the fundamental theories that precede the formation of new knowledge, highlighting the potential of Plasticity – as a new logical, (still) undetermined concept of creation, combination and malleability – in the refinement of the final format in which those key components of research are conceived, harmonized and incorporated into a multi-faceted strategy that is intended to be the best and most complete approximation to the object of study, subject to a perennial epistemological vigilance.
The critical-reflective process in social science research, especially in the police science – intrinsically plural, complex, and multidisciplinary – requires the researcher to have a good command of the variety of terms and the corresponding terminology, together with an in-depth knowledge of the main "building blocks" of generic social research (Grix, 2002; Hay, 2007), permeable to different erudite traditions and often competing visions. The apparent directional relationship, but not necessarily deterministic, between those foundations of research and the emergence of a plastic, dialectic and complementary propensity between theories and methodologies seems to point to possibly richer, more rigorous, and complete solutions of the objects of study, while allowing the corroboration and analysis of the resulting imperfections and/or choices made. This analytical exercise focuses precisely on the controversies and complexities implicit in the fundamental theories that precede the formation of new knowledge, highlighting the potential of Plasticity – as a new logical, (still) undetermined concept of creation, combination and malleability – in the refinement of the final format in which those key components of research are conceived, harmonized and incorporated into a multi-faceted strategy that is intended to be the best and most complete approximation to the object of study, subject to a perennial epistemological vigilance.
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Investigação Ontologia Epistemologia Metodologia Plasticidade Research Ontology Epistemology Methodology Plasticity.
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Centro de Investigação Prof. Doutor Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão