Una epistemología para el estudio de la subjetividad: sus implicaciones metodológicas

Abstract

This article presents the premises behind the shift towards the natural sciences taken by Psychology at the beginning of the XX century and the different processes that helped to identify its scientific nature with attributes such as objectivity, an emphasis on empiricism and quantification. The research emphasizes the historic and cultural nature of science itself, and the need to have new epistemological a methodological representations as a condition to make progress on new theoretical tracks. Following this goal, we propose the need of a Qualitative Epistemology on which to unfold a constructive-interpretative methodology as a necessary condition to make progress in field research about the topic of subjectivity from a cultural-historic perspective. The theory of subjectivity that this article supports represents, in fact, an epistemological proposal, since its concepts do not exist a priori of professional practice nor research, but they have to be constructed along both of them, so it is not possible to talk about “datacollection”.