Estar en el campo: el investigador como sujeto y objeto de investigación

Abstract

The following test presents a tour for a series of methodological reflections arisen during the work of investigation that had as aim know how the young persons of a poor neighborhood of the city of La Plata were constructing their school experience. These reflections treat principally the place of the investigator, his characteristics and emotions in game to the moment of the empirical investigation, "to be in the field", in order to contribute to the reflection brings over of the occupation of the social scientists and the implications in the empirical work.