ABSTRACT
The aim of this text is to analyze, initially, in a critical way, the production of social research in collective health having as its guiding axis the ‘missing link’ between theory and method. For this purpose, the textual modality of critical essay was chosen, inspired by Adorno and Meneghetti, who defend this modality as a way of overcoming the thought beyond the boundaries of the method. The starting point is the frequent confusion between ‘social research’ and ‘qualitative research’ in the field of collective health as a triggering issue for reflection. Throughout the text, the reflection revives concepts, theories and techniques used in the subarea of ‘social and human sciences in health’ as a way of discussing the (dis)connection. Finally, the limits and possibilities of social research in collective health and the role of social and human sciences in health are presented in problematizing the debate.
KEYWORDS
Qualitative research; Social sciences; Public health; Sociology; Knowledge