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New methodological possibilities: rupture of qualitative and quantitative paradigms in psychology

This report proposes a dialectic method of data analysis that breaks with the qualitative and quantitative paradigms in a complexity and transdisciplinary perspective taking as analytic categories historicity, gender relations, identity, narcissism, ephemerality and transitority. To illustrate this construction it is reported the case, "The Climacteric in Contemporary," which used standardized scales and speeches. In the analysis we constructed a linkage between the various types of results from a factor analysis and cluster to reveal both similarities and differences between the women surveyed, besides the formation of groups qualitative without being arbitrary or biased based the impressions of researchers. It is shown that creativity involves the methodological complexity of the object studied by building a unique methodological approach, based on dialectical thinking, which includes both the diversity as the totality of the phenomenon, showing that the quantity and quality and objectivity and subjectivity are two sides of a same phenomenon.

quality research; quantity research, Dialectic and Historical Materialism; socio historical psychology


Associação Brasileira de Psicologia Social Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (CFCH), Av. da Arquitetura S/N - 7º Andar - Cidade Universitária, Recife - PE - CEP: 50740-550 - Belo Horizonte - MG - Brazil
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