Treatment results in qualitative designs. Application of Descriptive Analysis

Abstract

This article presents the Descriptive Analysis as a strategy in treatment of information during the research process and its possible use in studies of qualitative design. Much research in Social Sciences and Humanities do not consider the importance of explicit theoretical and methodological supports for explanatory inferences or interpretations arrivals, how it is passed the selected reference) to the argument that represents it. Thus, it tends to ignore the problem of the representation of the reference and the necessary transformation of natural language (NL) to description language (LD).
It discusses two examples from the Ethology and Psychology, applying methodological strategy Descriptive Analysis. They show that the codification that allows this method takes into account on the one hand, the knowledge base and information relating to a particular disciplinary domain; and on the other hand, it allows to make evident the inferences followed in the reasoning and the rules of interpretation used in reaching new knowledge.