The Subject in Qualitative Research: Challenges Studying Development Processes

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Cláudio Márcio de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Lopes de Oliveira, Maria Cláudia Santos, Rossato, Maristela
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/19506
• topic: Sujeito; Pesquisa qualitativa; Desenvolvimento humano; Subject; Qualitative research; Human development

The goal of this paper is to induce a refl exive stance on the subjectivity, and its transformations in irreversible time, considering its implications on qualitative studies of human development. Initially, a historical-philosophical overview of the notions of ‘subject’ and ‘reality’ are provided. In the second part of the paper, fi ve dead-locks of contemporary research on human development are debated: (a) representing phenomena while they are changing; (b) the complexity involved in investigating integrative psychological categories ”“ such as ‘subjectivity’; (c) the assumption that research practices themselves promote dynamics of microgenetic development; (d) the recognition that researchers are a part of the investigated reality, also developing subjects; and, (e) the quest for coherence between theory and methodology, demanding non-instrumental methodological approaches.