El concepto de comunidad en las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas : apuntes para su comprensión

Abstract

This essay explores the concept of community. First, the author discusses the treatment of the tension between community and society that authors in classical sociology have made —Ferdinand Tönnies, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber. Then, he addresses theses by Latin American authors José Carlos Mariátegui and Ricardo Flores Magón, which provide guidelines to develop a reinterpretation of the concept. Next, he relates the concept of community with that of Modernity in order then to show two possible facets of the relationship between peasant communities and capitalist accumulation. Finally, he offers some hypotheses regarding the use the concept of community in Latin America.