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In this article I intend to reconstruct the methodological definitions made in the research on popular sectors young people, highlighting the circumstances, tensions, and accumulations we have produced in each stage of this process. On the basis of that analysis I develop some conclusions in terms of tensions, learning, and challenges. I recover my own backgrounds and those from the research group I lead at Escuela de Trabajo Social – UNC; which since many years intends to characterize and understand young people in Cordoba, their ways of organization, their motivations for participate, their representations and assessments towards work. Additionally, I recover concerns and personal accumulations in my history as a teacher and activist at public university; which have led to different texts, articles, courses, and productions about the relation between the three public university functions: research, extension and teaching. I intend to attach these reflections to two accumulation lines: on the one hand, the texts, articles and pieces of work that account for what Catalina Wainerman and Ruth Sautu (1998) names “research behind the scenes”; on the other, the concerns about the ways we study subjects, their living conditions, their representations, problems, and ways of solving them. These two lines are connected to Social Work as profession and discipline; occupation from which I produce, teach and intervene. |
