Analisar e conhecer o universo social é sempre intervir nele, ao contrário do que acontece com as ciências duras ou naturais, pelo que refletir sobre os pressupostos, as regras e as consequências da produção do conhecimento é o primeiro dos deveres da comunidade científica. O artigo pretende explorar as diferentes dimensões dessa questão e procede no sentido de demonstrar que num mundo cada vez mais complexo social e tecnologicamente torna-se crucial definir a relação entre o investigador e o universo social e justificar práticas de investigação com recurso a princípios e normas orientadoras. Para além de explorar os fundamentos metateoréticos e os diferentes paradigmas que contextualizam a problemática, o artigo descreve e analisa práticas consensuadas no âmbito da governação da investigação social no plano internacional desde 1945.
This article deals with the author’s personal narratives and expectations vis-à-vis world-changing events between 1989 and 1991. It illustrates the ways in which the Cold War and its end, as well as the Soviet Union and its end, represent powerful psychological factors in personal narratives of growing up and giving meaning to the world. In an autoethnographic manner, it approaches research and writing from the perspective of the researcher’s experience in order to produce new layers of understanding about the world. It builds on the assumption that big events on the world stage are composed of micro-stories that both nourish them and are nourished by them, and in so doing it makes the micro and the macro two inseparable, interwoven approaches to cultural experience and change. A conversation is forged between past and present, expectations and delusions, life of author and life of Europe, personal new beginnings and continental cul-de-sacs.
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