Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mara Janaina OLIVEIRA.pdf: 802686 bytes, checksum: d15854df9481c0443b29f688e564236e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-11 / The research has the objective to investigate the cognitive institutionalization of the scientific research in Information Science in Brazil, from the methodological repertoire analysis of the dissertations developed in two post-graduation courses, from 1993 to 2005. The specific objectives are: identify and describe the methodological repertoire used by the dissertations authors and identify the thematic tendencies. It is characterized as an exploratory and descriptive study, supported by tools and techniques of the methods of the analysis of the contents and scienciometric. The empiric corpus is constituted by 255 dissertations, 73 of them are documents from Universidade de S?o Paulo (USP) and 182 of them are from Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas). The analysis of the graphic representations supported by the theoric conception brought the following results: the dissertations developed in the IS post-graduation courses in PUC-Campinas and USP follow the same tendencies of others research programs of IS in Brazil. The dissertations are characterized by their methodological plurality and they are directed to practice, appliance, or solution of specific and located problems. It can also be observed that there are little reflexion and explanation about the repertoire adopted in these researches. As well there is a lack of understanding about what are the types of researches, methods and techniques. The more commonly used method in theses dissertations is the case study with a pragmatic focus and with a quantitative nature, in place of theoric and conceptual researches that are very important to the cognitive institutionalization of this area. / A pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a institucionaliza??o cognitiva da pesquisa cient?fica em Ci?ncia da Informa??o no Brasil, a partir da an?lise do repert?rio metodol?gico das disserta??es defendidas em dois Cursos de P?s-Gradua??o, no per?odo de 1993 a 2005. Os objetivos espec?ficos s?o: identificar e descrever o repert?rio metodol?gico utilizado pelos autores das disserta??es e identificar as tend?ncias tem?ticas. Caracteriza-se como um estudo explorat?rio e descritivo, apoiado pelas ferramentas e t?cnicas dos m?todos de an?lise de conte?do e cienciom?trico. O corpus emp?rico ? constitu?do por 255 disserta??es, sendo 73 documentos referentes ? Universidade de S?o Paulo (USP) e 182 ? Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas (PUC-Campinas). As an?lises das representa??es gr?ficas apoiada pelo quadro te?rico, geraram os seguintes resultados: - as disserta??es defendidas nos Cursos de Mestrado em CI da PUC-Campinas e da USP seguem algumas tend?ncias das dos demais programas de pesquisas em CI no Brasil. As disserta??es est?o caracterizadas por pluralidade metodol?gica e orientadas para a pr?tica, aplica??o ou solu??o de problemas espec?ficos e localizados. Observa-se ainda, pouca reflex?o e explica??o sobre o repert?rio metodol?gico adotado nas pesquisas. Assim como h? falta de entendimento do que sejam tipos de pesquisa, m?todos, t?cnicas. O m?todo mais utilizado nas disserta??es, realmente, ? o estudo de caso com enfoque pragm?tico e de natureza quantitativa, em detrimento de pesquisas te?ricas e conceituais que s?o de suma import?ncia para a institucionaliza??o cognitiva da ?rea.