On sociological debates in Mexico and the contemporary pertinence of a latinoamerican classic: José Medina Echavarría and sociology as a concrete social science.

The main purpose of this paper is to show how theorical discussion on mexican sociology has a past-present temporal perspective that constitutes an important heritage, which is important to explore and reinterpret. This task implies to make contemporary, important streams of past knowledge that enri...

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Autores: Moya López, Laura Angélica, Olvera Serrano, Margarita
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Acta Sociológica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/33121
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/ras/article/view/33121
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:José Medina Echavarría
experience of time and space
conceptalization
historize.
experiencia del tiempo
espacio
conceptuación
historificación.
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Sumario:The main purpose of this paper is to show how theorical discussion on mexican sociology has a past-present temporal perspective that constitutes an important heritage, which is important to explore and reinterpret. This task implies to make contemporary, important streams of past knowledge that enrich the present development of sociological thought. We require a profound reflection on experience of time and space in early and late modernities, on the role of conceptual construction, and the status of sociology as a circumstantial social science. This important effort was developed by one of the most important sociologist of the Spanish exhile in Mexico in the twentieth century: José Medina Echavarría. He emphasized the importance of the historical dimension of social phenomena, and of time and space experiences in the development of conceptualization and sociological theory. He considered sociology as a concrete social science, which is a central idea for the development of sociology nowadays.