The Critical Epistemology of the Concrete and the Moments of the Research: A Proposition for Organizational Studies
Keywords:
Critical Epistemology of Concrete. Moments of Research. Organizational Studies. Primacy of the Real. Methodology.Abstract
The aim of this study is to propose, from a Critical Epistemology of Concrete – CEC approach, a methodological procedure that explicitly states the three fundamental phases of all research conducted within this epistemology. This is not a blueprint to be followed, but a reflection of researchers’ procedural actions, guiding them in their practice towards understanding it. The research does not take place automatically, simple and direct. All the research involves different moments, however, in its process of accomplishment. Such moments can not to be reduced on the contacts or on the amount of times the researcher establishes relations with the object of his investigation, but the ways in which these relationships develop and change themselves. There are, in fact, characteristically distinct moments and real ownership by integrated thinking from the real. Every moment of the research consists of a set of interactive actions between the researcher and his/her object. There is no predefined succession events such that from one moment to another, because there is not a natural, automatic and linear passage between those moments. The researcher evolves from one moment to another when he/she overcomes the limitations of each previous time, but not so, because there is no guarantee that from the interactive actions between the researcher with the object, there is no need to go back to the understanding of certain constituent elements of the previous phase. The proposition of these three research phases in a CEC approach for organizational studies suggests that all research, in this dimension, is a process that has the concrete as primacy and that the researchers’ relationships with the concrete is not direct, immediate, simple and definitive. It is necessary a two-way procedure between the researchers and the phenomenon that they are studying, so that they know it in its knowable totality and therefore, in its dynamic and contradictory essence, and not only in its appearance.
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