The dialectic of time of empirical observation in sciences of society

Abstract

From a dialogue between the works of Michel de Certeau and Niklas Luhmann, this work offers a projection of the concepts of strategy and tactics in the analysis of different time dimensions present in the empirical observation of the social sciences. Temporalities are two almost opposite that of the duration of the strategies and the instant of the tactics. The temporality of the social system of science and the temporality of the encounter between this social system and social systems observed. Two temporalities interact and seem to refuse, however, in their relationship, produce empirical observation.