The quality of survey

Abstract

This article reflects upon the quality of the survey, contemplating with a triply scoutinizing eye, according to technical, methodological and epistemological perspectives. The technical eye searches for possible errors committed during implementation. The methodological eye views the pertinence of the use of the survey. And the epistemological eye views the survey after having previously answered a key question: what is the purpose of research? Is it to explain social reality, to understand social phenomenon, or to transform the object of study? The 3 levels are related in hierarchical order, in a way in which the answer we give to the episthemological question influences methodology, and this in turn influences the technical aspect.