Abstract

The paper presents some considerations concerning the process of social research, with a special focus in the analysis of data. In particular, we show some aspects of the process of 'construction of analysis categories'. The paper makes part of the project "Language and Teaching in Teacher Education" which -with grants from the Comahue National University and the European Union- studies the teaching conceptions of University professors at the Bariloche Regional Centre, in Comahue University. The construction of categories for the analysis of literally transcribed classes was based on the results obtained by applying a lexicometric analysis to written interviews to the same teachers whose classes were transcribed. Moreover, a short philosophical consideration is presented concerning the ways in which scientific activity is understood since the second half of the XX century