La entrada al terreno institucional

Abstract

The practice to observe and investigate institutions presents a particular relation between group and institution. This relation, which is in parallel with the investigative task, has a specific dimension of phenomena. Meanwhile they are not considering, they will put in danger the explicit objectives of the work constantly. The inherent phenomena in the relation between investigation team and institution "object" operate in a paradigmatic way at the moment when they entrance to the site. First of all, about two aspects of the "nature" of institutions: those who here are called institutional failure and institutional fence. This paper consists in a theoretical development where the process is analyzed when a investigation team accede to the institutional site; and it finalizes with some "rules of method" in order to facilitate the task of new investigators. The theoretical development is mainly supported with the contributions of the institutional analysis, the psychoanalysis and the sociology of field.