“…This vision, taken to its extreme, implies an approach that is structured with the limited and limiting effect of measuring the polysemy and plasticity of the problems that populate the realities to be studied and the actors who live them, and translating them into numbers, equations and statistical relationships, in a specific interval of spacetime, in an attempted to mathematize what is real. But any such approach tends to cloud one fact: social research deals, in the first and last instance, with human beings, with flesh and blood, emotions and feelings -all of which are, in essence, appearance and value, of a more plastic than precise nature (ALVES, 2005;CRUZ NETO, 1998;FERNANDES;MOREIRA, 2013;MINAYO, 1998;MINAYO;SANCHES, 1993) At the same time, it is also a fact that in the area of health, the importance and the use of the theoretical-practical resources of the social sciences have stood out vigorouslythese include the resources of anthropology, political science, history, law, philosophy, administration, economics, etc. Hence there is increasingly a need to provide support to planners of research studies, to help them deepen and articulate their reflections on the preparation and structuring of their research projects, combining knowledge, collections of knowledge, and practices (ALVES, 2005;COSTA, 2002;DESLANDES, 1997;FERNANDES;MOREIRA, 2013;LIMA;MIOTO, 2007;MINAYO;SANCHES, 1993;RICHARDSON, 1999;SERAPIONI, 200;TEIXEIRA, 2004).…”