ABSTRACT
“Among those verses of the poet Archilochus that have survived one can read this line: “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows only one big thing.” The same is true of researchers. So long as they are describing, one sees them exploring aggressively, like the fox, the numerous trails that criss-cross the topology of society. … As soon as this researcher assumes the task of explaining the corpus of results arrived at, everything changes. Like the hedgehog, he involuntarily rolls up in a ball and sticks out his spines, that is, he rejects what clashes with and contradicts his own views.
