Methodology and Method in Scientific Research
Methodology and Method in Scientific Research

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to operate the conceptual distinctions between the methodology of research and the methods, techniques, procedures and instruments of research. In the first part of the article, we make an analysis of the interpretations given to methodology, insisting upon the distinctions between general methodology and the specialized methodologies of the different fields of research. The second part of the article tries to highlight the principles that stand at the basis of the functioning of research methodology (the unity between theory and practice, between theory and practice and between the deductive and evaluative judgments), as well as the distinctions between qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In the last part of the article we systematize the characteristics of the research method and the different criteria according to which they can be used in the practice of scientific research.

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