The paper discusses vicissitudes of research and tutoring in postgraduate programs through a dialogue with foucauldian genealogy. It makes a conceptual analysis about the foucauldian method in contraposition with Descarte's perspective. It presents some elements for a diagnosis of the present of the research in the field of human sciences in Brazil, working with studies of another researchers and a survey with psychology's scholars. It highlights the importance of a methodological discussion in research process; analyzes tactic and problematizing aspects of research projects submitted to funding agencies; discusses assesment parameters of the function and the relevance for researches in this field.
research; tutoring; postgraduate programs; Foucault; genealogy; methodology