Socializing the researcher to observe the socialization of the subjects: notes on research with the elites

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present preliminary information about the research entitled Thought and Cultural
Practices of Elite Paulistana. The intention is to problematize issues of methodological and theoretical
order observed during the research work. More specifically, the difficulties and strategies used to overcome
the difficult relationships with a select social group - the elites of São Paulo society. Linked to this issue, some
impressions of the fractions studied will be analyzed, their idiosyncrasies based on belonging to this group and
the sectors of the economy they represent. It is a first explanation of more general data from the research that
seeks to understand the forms of justification of domination and the social representations of elites from their
social trajectories with the sociology of socialization as a theoretical perspective.