About the changing ways of writing in the field of social sciences

Abstract

There has been a generalized acknowledgement of the crisis undergone by the textual world of poetics in scientific writing. Some of the strongest assumptions of this kind of prose, such as its natural condition of objectivity, have collapsed. In “the discourse of social science”, its frequent opacity can be descried; an opacity that was already visible from Barthes’ rebellious attitude in the 60s, when he denounced those who wanted “research to be shown but not written.” However, a look at the essays produced in our times tells us that we are still confronted with the sometimes tragic option of participating in or standing aside from the searches that involve the creation of a new subject of writing; in other words, we need to choose whether or not to cross the boundaries that mark the differences among discursive genres. Published in Sociedad. Social Science Journal of the School of Social Science at University of Buenos Aires, #23. Buenos Aires Argentina. Translated by Marta Ines Merajver Translation from Sociedad (Buenos Aires) no.22, ano 2004