Calibrating the theoretical lenses. Operationalization and methodological strategies for the analysis of the “popular national identities”

Abstract

This article aims to reconstruct the steps in shaping the framework of a doctoral thesis in the field of popular organizations in the recent past in Argentina. In this context, we present the operationalization of theoretical categories with which they addressed the political dynamics of these organizations during the period 2003-2009 and will question the methodological strategy. In summary it is proposed to reconstruct the theoretical construction of an investigation and the different steps followed from the construction of the object, the theoretical discussion and research contributes to the concept of identity.