Cinta de Moebio: Revista de Epistemología de Ciencias Sociales

Duarte, K; Canales, M y Cottet, P. (2016) Conversaciones juveniles: aportes a las prácticas y lógicas de la investigación social. Cinta moebio 57: 275-284. doi: 10.4067/S0717-554X2016000300003

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Youth talking: notes on social research practices and logics

Klaudio Duarte (claudioduarte@u.uchile.cl) Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile) ORCID: 0000-0001-7855-4300

Manuel Canales (mcanalesc@gmail.com) Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile) ORCID: 0000-0002-5197-7642

Pablo Cottet (pcottet@yahoo.com) Departamento de Sociología, Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile) ORCID: 0000-0003-3431-3307

Abstract

Social research techniques are a set of devices that contribute to the observation and knowledge of the social. Such devices are the subject of analysis in this article. The main argument that we hold is that increasingly innovation in design and use is required to better understand the complexity contained in social processes we studied, not succumbing to the formalization and crystallization of the same, but opening to movements that blur boundaries and open up new possibilities increasingly filled with everyday observation. The youth as a metaphor for the social contains a good opportunity for the deployment of these ideas, especially in the possibility of addressing the confluence of biography and structure, when these individuals reflect on their future. With a qualitative method we investigate how young people from different social sectors are experiencing the output of secondary education in Chile. Further analysis on the technique used in this research (and decisions that demonstrate our logical and research practices) allows us to offer the following thoughts.

Key words: social research, techniques for the production of information, group interview, group discussion, class council.