Paradigms and interests of knowledge in Information Science: a study on master's theses in the Graduate Program in Information Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2011-2013)

ABSTRACT

In the historical trajectory of science, numerous were the perspectives used in the effort to understand the phenomena of nature intrinsic to the scientific knowledge construction process. Admitting the multiplicity of its investigation objects, scientific knowledge has come to be branched in particular sciences knowledge, as they were listed in two categories: formal sciences and empirical sciences, including in the latter category, calls Social Sciences, an area in which science Information (CI) is inserted. Thus, the present study sought from the study of the academic research field of information science, understand the paradigmatic nature of research in the context of Information Science, as well as the interest of knowledge production in the analyzed studies. As study corpus, we chose to analyze the dissertations in the Program of Graduate Studies in Information Science (PPGCI) of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), covering the period between the years 2011 to 2013 listed the 26 dissertations defended between the mentioned period, there was a predominance of positivist paradigm oriented, mainly, by a bias of technical interest.

Keywords:
Graduate in Information Science; Information Science; Master's thesis PPGCI/UFPE