Social Structures in the Framework of Globalization
Social structures are considered in this essay as socially built realities that are subjected to reflexivity & historicity & whose production & reproduction are increasingly inserted in the globalization processes that are taking place on a planetary scale. As a consequence of this situa...
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| Published in: | Revista internacional de sociología 2000-09 (27), p.125-150 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | spa |
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| Summary: | Social structures are considered in this essay as socially built realities that are subjected to reflexivity & historicity & whose production & reproduction are increasingly inserted in the globalization processes that are taking place on a planetary scale. As a consequence of this situation, a remarkable intensification of reflexivity in social structures is being experienced; consequently, we are seeing a progressive increase in their complexity level, so that the task of describing &/or explaining them has become harder. With the purpose of carrying out this task from a holistic & totalizing approach, some analytic criteria are proposed whose theoretical framework is suitable for the study of the dialectic relations experienced between micro & macro. On the one hand, what is conceived as the reflexive nature of the microsocial structures in most people's daily life is developed; & on the other hand, the logic considered here as autopoietic or autoreferential, through which the macrosocial structures perform at a global scale, is explored. 1 Table, 33 References. Adapted from the source document. |
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| ISSN: | 0034-9712 1988-429X |