Ramos C.; Canales A. y Palestini S. 2008. El Campo de las Ciencias Sociales en Chile: ¿Convergencia disciplinar en la construcción del objeto de estudio?. Cinta moebio 33: 171-194

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The field of the social sciences in Chile: Disciplinary convergence in the construction of the study object?

Dr. Claudio Ramos-Zincke (cramos@uc.cl) Departamento de Sociología. Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago, Chile).
Mg. Andrea Canales (andrea.canales@sociology.ox.ac.uk) Departamento de Sociología. Universidad de Oxford (Oxford, Inglaterra).
Lic. Stefano Palestini (spalestini@uahurtado.cl) Departamento de Sociología. Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Santiago, Chile).


Abstract

The article presents empirical findings characterizing the social sciences field in Chile, in the period 2000-2006, regarding its cognitive processes, in a disciplinary comparison. For the research, it was constituted a corpus of 479 publications reporting investigations whose authors are sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists. It was analyzed the way in which such investigations built scientific facts, considering paradigmatic framing, theoretical construction, and methodological procedures.

Key words: scientific field, scientific paradigm, social research, disciplines, methodology.

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