The study aims to elucidate the epistemological approach in social research for the production of scientific theories, taking into account the conceptual weaknesses in the training of researchers that recurrently are reduced between a quantitative or qualitative approach as the guiding axis of the investigative process. The methodology used was framed in a qualitative approach, using the hermeneutical-critical method that allowed interpreting the information in units of analysis through documentary sources. In this sense, the research findings highlighted the importance of knowing the researcher’s perception of social reality, the relationship between the researcher and what is being investigated to access scientific knowledge and the investigator’s procedural strategy to respond to the objectives of the study. In conclusion, quantitative or qualitative methodological approaches are ...

The research to be presented has the purpose of proposing a methodological foundation of the academic essay for the orientation of the university student. In this way, the study is circumscribed in a dialogic encounter from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics where the search for meaning, meaning and truth converge in the texts on the characteristics of an academic essay in its typology (Argumentative, Expository or Analytical), contextualizing its methodological structure and its way of communicating academic writing with well-founded positions to differentiate doxa from episteme. Methodologically, a qualitative approach is expressed taking into account the hermeneutic circle as a research method circumscribed in the interpretive paradigm. It is concluded that the structure of an academic essay has a formal character where the authors must base the purpose of the postulates th...

The research to be presented has the purpose of proposing a methodological foundation of the academic essay for the orientation of the university student. In this way, the study is circumscribed in a dialogic encounter from the perspective of philosophical hermeneutics where the search for meaning, meaning and truth converge in the texts on the characteristics of an academic essay in its typology (argumentative, expository or analytical), contextualizing its methodological structure and its way of communicating academic writing with well-founded positions to differentiate doxa from episteme. Methodologically, a qualitative approach is expressed taking into account the hermeneutic circle as a research method circumscribed in the interpretive paradigm. It is concluded that the structure of an academic essay has a formal character where the authors must base the purpose of the postulates th...

The study aims to elucidate the epistemological approach in social research for the production of scientific theories, taking into account the conceptual weaknesses in the training of researchers that recurrently are reduced between a quantitative or qualitative approach as the guiding axis of the investigative process. The methodology used was framed in a qualitative approach, using the hermeneutical-critical method that allowed interpreting the information in units of analysis through documentary sources. In this sense, the research findings highlighted the importance of knowing the researcher’s perception of social reality, the relationship between the researcher and what is being investigated to access scientific knowledge and the investigator’s procedural strategy to respond to the objectives of the study. In conclusion, quantitative or qualitative methodological approaches are ...