Contribuições de Wilson e Wersig para a intelecção metodológica na Ciência da Informação

Abstract

The humanities and social sciences have as Achilles heel, its subjectivity and necessity of abstraction, so often seen its scientific questioned. Another argument is the lack of questioning in social sciences Methodologies own. This article is the result of a reflection from the contributions of Wilson and Wersig for understanding the methodological setup in information science as a social science and its characteristics. We performed a literature search in journals of information science, in which emphasis is given to the recovery of articles that deal with research methodology in the area, trying to recover items theorists mentioned above and, subsequently, other authors articles that cite. As a result, we draw a picture that depicts how the two theorists conceive the possibility (or evidence of possibilities) an identity methodology for information science.