Abstract EN:

There are multiple evidences of a recent relationship between journalism and social sciences, whether there is a question of institutional organization (practices, formation and functions), actores (production, ways of operation, methods of inquiry, establishment and processing of sources) or of production (places of publication, subjects of interest). However, between the presupposition of a clear and neat separation and the acceptance of a total concurrence, the frontier between social sciences and journalism had not been considered yet as a problem worth investigating about. In the first part this research work aims at providing the evidences of the present day gliding between both domains through the analysis of two particular places that have explicity shown a certain cloudiness on these frontiers : the history of present time and the research journalism. In the second part the question focused on the analysis of the relation between social sciences and journalism at the practical level (products, production processes and ways of conceiving the actors). Two institutions were chosen : Le Monde Diplomatique and the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, because they allow us to illustrate a particular case of concurrence between social sciences and journalism. In the third part the notion of objectivity en each domain serves as the starting point to analyze the relations between knowledge (intended as "savoirs") and engagement, between theoretical knowledge and politics, at the practical level. How to articulate "in practice" the three discourses -informative, erudite and political ? This is the central question that is involved here and has triggered off this research work.