This manual is intended to be useful for those readers who do not have previous knowledge on the subject, offering a simple instruction guide that brings them closer to the most conventional methods and techniques applicable to research processes in the social sciences. In its pages it is emphasized that research involves a social process of cognitive production and that empirical data are elaborations of a manufacturing nature of a research instance within certain conditions of production that involve a social action of a theoretical and technical nature of researchers located in academic and scientific organizations and institutions (whose interests and strategies are influenced by social, economic and political factors) that demand, enable, guide, sustain and also restrict the research action.