Os desafios político-científicos que atualmente atravessam as ciências sociais e, mais especificamente, a área dos estudos de juventudes, alertam para a necessidade de revalorização do método na produção de ciência e na mediação entre conceito e realidade. Não o método regrado e padronizado tal como é entendido por paradigmas de natureza mais positivista, mas possibilidades metodológicas suficientemente flexíveis, ágeis, criativas e juvenilizadas para lidar com as complexidades dos mundos juvenis contemporâneos. Mais do que a estandardização do método aplicado, a validação da aplicação desses desenhos metodológicos passa pelo desenvolvimento de estratégias reflexivas de acompanhamento que tornem transparente os processos de pesquisa com jovens, nomeadamente em termos de reflexividade metodológica, reflexividade posicional e reflexividade ética. Esta última deve ir além da aplicação da crescente regulamentação jurídica e normativa que tem envolvido a produção de ciência em teias burocráticas, e colocar o pesquisador a si próprio enquanto ser social e a sua prática de pesquisa como prática relacional, implicando relações epistémicas de co-laboração com os participantes dos estudos.
The political-scientific challenges currently facing the social sciences, and more specifically the field of youth studies, warn of the need to revalue method in the production of science and in the mediation between concept and reality. Not the regulated and standardised method as understood by paradigms of a more positivist nature, but methodological possibilities that are sufficiently flexible, agile, creative and youthful to deal with the complexities of contemporary youth worlds. More than standardising the method used, validating the use of these methodological designs involves developing reflexive follow-up strategies that make research processes with young people transparent, particularly in terms of methodological reflexivity, positional reflexivity and ethical reflexivity. The latter must go beyond the application of the increasing legal and normative regulations that have entangled the production of science in bureaucratic webs, and place the researcher as a social being and his/her research practice as a relational practice, implying epistemic relations of co-labour with the participants in the studies.
Method, reflexivity and ethics in research processes with young people
Resumo (abstract):
The political-scientific challenges currently facing the social sciences, and more specifically the field of youth studies, warn of the need to revalue method in the production of science and in the mediation between concept and reality. Not the regulated and standardised method as understood by paradigms of a more positivist nature, but methodological possibilities that are sufficiently flexible, agile, creative and youthful to deal with the complexities of contemporary youth worlds. More than standardising the method used, validating the use of these methodological designs involves developing reflexive follow-up strategies that make research processes with young people transparent, particularly in terms of methodological reflexivity, positional reflexivity and ethical reflexivity. The latter must go beyond the application of the increasing legal and normative regulations that have entangled the production of science in bureaucratic webs, and place the researcher as a social being and his/her research practice as a relational practice, implying epistemic relations of co-labour with the participants in the studies.
Ferreira, VS. Método, reflexividade e ética em processos de pesquisa com jovens. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/mai). [Citado em 05/12/2025].
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