Estudios sociales, tradiciones de lucha y movimientos de desocupados en Argentina: reflexiones teórico-metodológicas

Abstract

In this paper I consider the place of traditions of struggle in social studies, considering the ways in which the organization of the unemployed was thought in general, and taking into account the case of Tartagal and Mosconi (Argentina) in particular. Why did organized unemployed seem new? Why did the first studies on those localities overlook the struggle traditions in the area? I address here these and other related questions and reflect on the theoretical-methodological need to abandon schemes and supposed laws in order to access the complex network of interactions that intervenes to produce social events.