%0 Journal Article %T Pr¨¢ctica y cr¨ªtica te¨®rica de un enfoque epistemol¨®gico para analizar la experiencia socioest¨¦tica en frentes de agua %A Iazzetta Di Stasio %A Esteban Pedro %J Revista de Ciencias Sociales %D 2010 %I Universidad del Zulia %X the epistemological approach to socio-aesthetic experience analysis is based on integrating experience and practice to build a theory about socio-aesthetics on waterfronts. experience and practice are based on previous, sensitive and rational knowledge about la vereda, a park located on the waterfront of maracaibo, the second-largest venezuelan city and capital of the state of zulia. the epistemological approach is based on social practices and a theoretical-critical position regarding action: relation of the body with space, culture and the space-time concept (bourdieu, hall and lotman). the study tries to explain the social reality of the socio-aesthetic experience manifested in waterfronts (bourdieu, gadamer, lyotard) through symbolic comprehension and subjectivity of the social and cultural world, all in hermeneutic language. thus, the epistemological approach considers phenomenology as the philosophy of intuition, systematizes and generates a method that integrates and relates forms of building knowledge: analytical-synthetic, hermeneutic-symbolic, as well as the analysis of practice. it also considers principles based truly on human nature itself between the symbolic and biological, and on fluctuating, dynamic and changing historical knowledge where laws are uncertain and emerging. %K socio-aesthetic experience %K epistemological approach %K social practices %K hermeneutic language %K philosophy of intuition. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-95182010000100013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en