Introduction to research

Introduction to research

1. Science

   • system that organizes and orders knowledge through verifiable questions and a structured method that studies and interprets natural, social and artificial phenomena.

2. Subject

   • Person who, from his individuality, seeks to know any aspect of reality that he wishes to investigate.

3. Object

   • Being existing either in society, in nature in an animate or inanimate way and that is susceptible to being investigated

4. Technique

   • Resources and procedures necessary to study a phenomenon

5. Technology

   • Set of means, artifacts and tools that is used together with the technique to achieve the results of said study.

6. Epistemology

   • Part of the philosophy that studies the principles, foundations, extension and methods of human knowledge.

7. Scientific knowledge

   • Set of knowledge verified, systematized and acquired in a systematic and methodical way through observation, experimentation and the analysis of facts or phenomena.

8. Scientific method

   • Based on empirical and measurement, and be subject to the specific principles of reasoning tests.

9. Empirical knowledge

   • It is one that is born from observation and experimentation. That is, it does not start from assumptions or logical deductions, but from experience itself.