De las imposturas a los "trucos de oficio". Reflexiones "metodológicas" desde la antropología social (argentina)

ABSTRACT The use of methodological ?recipes? and the appeal to various forms of political correctness in the study of different groups are temptations to which a large number of social scientists often embrace. [...]in this paper some tricks are developed, as defined by the sociologist Howard Becker, who question formalities, tendencies and agreements implicit in the scientific-academic work that do not precisely stimulate creativity. The application forms that circulate in the scientific system, the ?methodological? subjects, the guidelines for the evaluation of academic production and the intellectual impostures, configure a diversity of situations that often promote comfortable routines linked more to rigidity than rigor. On the contrary, other types of academic proposals are confronted with the censorship of ?normal science?, which in certain contexts are accompanied by a set of moral and ideological judgments that can dissemble creativity, open discussion of ideas and exploration of problematic empirical vacuums.