Epistemological competence in the Venezuelan social university researcher

Abstract

This investigation aims to reflect on epistemology as the main competence of the university social researcher, it is noteworthy that this premise is the product of the theorization of the doctoral thesis entitled social research and its competences in the university teacher, where seven competences are articulated and interact one another, in order to manage researches in line with emerging proposals for social research. The epistemological competence of the university social researcher is based on the philosophical questioning. In this regard, it is necessary for the researchers to philosophize about reality in their contexts, to ask themselves how to improve it, to approach it, from a research process. This will allow them to become researchers with relevance to the social changes proposed by the multiple social realities. They can thus know how to do research from the epistemology according to the mental-real parameters in which they develop.