Reflexive return about the thought process
The article is a reflexive return about the thought process of a researcher working on sex social relations and the working class movement, in history and sociology: reflection on the evolution of her research material (relation with oral sources, image), on the tools making easier a transmission on the confrontation with new languages in order to report on the research, on new practices to get out of the university microcosm, to enrich with the reactions of a public who was – or not – acting as stakeholder in the study. And, up-stream, to facilitate the production of a reflection by the inquired persons so that they become, up to a certain point, subjects and not only objects, make the process their own and participate, for example, to the elaboration of the content of a theatrical text on the thematic of sex stereotypes. Transversely, the question of the researcher’s position, of the relation between connivance, empathy, and alterity.