Las estructuras sociales en el marco de la globalización

Abstract

Social structures are considered in this essay as socially built realities that are subjected to reflexivity and historicity and whose production and reproduction are increasingly inserted in the globalization processes that nowadays are taking place at a planetary scale. As a consequence of this situation, a remarkable intensification of reflexivity in social structures is being experienced, and consequently we are seeing a progressive increasing on their complexity level. Besides the task of describing and /or explaining them becomes harder. With the purpose of carrying out this task from a holist and totalizing approach, in this article some analytic criteria are proposed whose theoretical framework intends to be suitable for the study of the dialectic relations which are experienced between micro and macro. On the one hand, what is conceived as reflexive nature of the micro-social structures in those most people daily life is developed; and, on the other hand, the logic, considered here as autopoietic or autoreferential, through which the macro-social structures perform at a global scale.