This practice is responsible for the analysis phase of all collected data.
Once finished the process of collecting data or, in many cases, during the actual process of collecting data, researchers must try to empathise with the world of multiple meanings present in the material, then create an hypothesis and theories and also reduce the complexity of social reality.
In the first practice of analysis there is a first contact with the material. With the description, the ordination and the reconstruction, students get used to the data collected and prepare the path for the later interpretative analysis in order for it to be transparent and intersubjectively comprehensive.
The second practice of analysis is focused on the interpretation of the material. It is a step on the analysis that even many experimented researchers try to avoid either for fear to make a mistake in the interpretation or to not compromise the objectivity of the investigation. However, we considerate it an essential step to get into the world of the social meanings. This practice requires the previous fulfilment of the descriptive analysis and must help to develop organized interpretations, and be transparent and intersubjectively comprehensive.
The topics of the material we are to investigate are the migrations and the integration process, topic that at the beginning should not be too specific and that counts already with a certain degree of previous knowledge by the students.
Descriptive Analysis Practise
Interpretative Analysis Practise
