Des loyautés incompatibles

• Main Author: Daniel Bizeul
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2007-06-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: participant observation; National Front; ethical principles; homosexuality; inter-ethnic relations
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/226

Experiencing directly phenomenon while participating to activities of the concerned circles, represents one of the most natural and safer way to reach the complexity of the society. It is also one of the most disturbing means for the researcher, often confronted to interdicts of contacts between groups which interests or principles of life are antagonists. Creating close relationships with French National Front party activists, some of them “neo-nazis”, some of them living a few streets from your house, while being gay, with colored men as closed friends, surrounded by persons hostile to this party, thus forces to make opposed connections. A possible risk for the researcher can be to be divided between contradictory feelings and spending time finishing an analysis free of unwarranted influence.