- Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Human and Social Sciences Research

Abstract

This reflection article problematizes the relations between phenomenology and hermeneutics as epistemic places of research through a documentary approach built in two phases. Firstly, the text reflects on the terminology present in the paradigms, approaches, epistemological perspectives and research methods. Thereby, it is determined that there is no uniqueness of criteria in their references and approaches in the research methodology treaties analyzed. Likewise, methodological proposals that include phenomenology and hermeneutics in a complementary, articulated or isolated way are stressed, without allowing understanding places that situate their application in research. Based on the preceding, the second phase proposes an individual approach to the antecedents and insights of phenomenology and hermeneutics. Moreover, particularities that characterize them, possible theoretical-practical differences and approximations that can be established, given their relevance from the epistemic and methodological framework of research in human and social sciences, are identified.