Reflexiones sobre una estrategia metodológica para el análisis de las protestas sociales

How is it possible to identify, understand and explain the meaning of collective actions? That might be one of today's most challenging and controversial questions for Social Theory in general as well as for the Methodology of Social Sciences in particular. From a theoretical outlook, there are several available courses to interpret collective actions and many of them imply the choice of a specific methodological strategy. Therefore, in an attempt to build a research design for the empirical analysis of social protests, some of the basic difficulties facing production of knowledge in social sc...