Recursos sociales y recursos científicos en la explicación de los materiales etnográficos. Retrospectiva sobre una investigación de la prejubilación de los mineros asturianos

Abstract

In this article there is analyzed the form in which the social relations between the investigated subjects and the investigators influence the arguments used in the ethnographic texts. The qualitative investigations cannot advance without paying the social price that has facilitated the understanding of the studied phenomena. The argumentation includes then rhetorical dimensions, which must be considered throughout all the investigation. In this text some moments of the ethnographic argumentation are reviewed in an investigation about the early retirement of the Asturian miners.