“Fieldwork”: to do what?
Considering that social sciences are sciences of the empirie, this article suggests a reflection on the way these sciences would assure this objective when they assert proceeding from a « field ». It will try to establish how much the « field » can, and must, be heuristic in the research approach. How significant it can become in the testing of the research problem. How much, finally, it « obliges » the researcher. Much more, even if the social sciences reach to share the same understanding of the field, they can engage themselves in an epistemology of the discovery far more in compliance with the one that guides the other sciences.