The place of quantitative in cartographic research

• Autor(a) principal: César, Janaína Mariano
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Silva, Fabio Hebert da, Bicalho, Pedro Paulo Gastalho de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Fractal : Revista de Psicologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4947
• topic: research methodology; method of cartography; quantitative; qualitative; Metodologia de pesquisa; Método da Cartografia; Quantitativo; Qualitativo

This paper proposes to discuss the notions of quality and quantity within the cartographic research, with emphasis on the latter. These are articulated in ethical-political direction of an inseparability plan of forms and forces, not restricted to dichotomous perspective between “quality” and “quantity”. From two cases of research in their specific strategies, a psychological test and a questionnaire measuring mild mental disorders, seeks to problematize the effects of quantitative operation as one of the possible clues to the method of cartography: the notion of quantitative as a quantum forces and the notion of qualitative as differential between quanta of forces, in a real production.