Social Imagination

Social Imagination

Introduction

Sociology is born and develops in the Modern World. Reflects its main eras and transformations. In certain cases, it seems only his chronicle, but in others unveils some of its fundamental dilemmas. Turns primarily on the present, reminiscences of the past, announcing illusions of the future. If we concentrate on the issues classics of sociology, as well as their theoretical contributions, we are soon faced with many different expressions this world. In many ways, she is born and develops with it. More than that, it depends on the Modern World Sociology to be explained, to understand you. Perhaps one can say that without it this world would be more confusing incognito.

Discussion

Arises at a given moment in the history of the Modern World. More precisely, in the mid-nineteenth century, when it is rapidly developing, performing. This is a time when already reveal more openly social forces, the settings of life, originality and deadlocks civil society, urban-industrial bourgeois, or capitalist. The most distinctive characters are earning their profiles and movements: groups, classes, social movements and political parties, bourgeois, workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists and politicians; market goods, capital, technology, labor, profit, capital accumulation and surplus; society, state and nation, the international division of labor and colonialism, revolution and counter-revolution.

One of its main symbols, capital, seems to establish the limits and shadows that mark the relations and distances between the present and the past, superstition and illustration, work and laziness, the nation and the province, tradition and modernity. In its connotations social, political and cultural values ??and economic capital seems to have a kind of civilizing mission, in every country and continent in the world. Of course it can recognize antecedents or harbingers of sociology of ideas, philosophies and currents thought of other times. Are common references to Montesquieu, Vico and Rousseau, among ...