From the qualitative research domestication to the challenge of reinventing

摘要

Qualitative research is a model based on getting transformations that promote social justice. For this, the researcher acts with the participants, who are the owners of the problem and as such, should be the core of the research, focusing the processes in getting results which transform social practices. However, the pressures that researchers have from the administrations and companies that finance the researches make qualitative research encounter a conflict between its true function and obtaining objective and extrapolated purposes, thereby distorting qualitative research. Against this problem it is important to consider the characteristics of qualitative research to redirect it to the transformation purpose for which it was created.