Abstract

RAMOS REYES, Jesús. Social Issue, Social Problem and Social Justice in Mexican Social Thought (1840-1960). Secuencia [online]. 2021, n.111, e1792.  Epub Sep 27, 2021. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i111.1792.

This article traces the emergence, development, and changes in the concepts of “social question”, “social problem” and “social justice” in socialism, anarchism, marxism, liberalism, and Catholicism as trends in social thinking in Mexico. Using the conceptual history method of Reinhart Koselleck, the author concludes that trends in thinking share concepts that have been adapted, to varying degrees and in different directions, in their ideology. The results show that the development of these trends was heterogeneous, as was the function of the concepts in their ideologies. The article contributes a long-term overview of Mexican social thought revealing the logic of social language, the modus operandi of ideologies in Mexico, and the convergence between the theory and practice of national politics and the world.

Keywords : social issue; social problem; social justice; social thinking; conceptual history.

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