Abstract

TRUCCO, Ignacio  and  LAUXMANN, Carolina. Latin American structuralism and the sociology of modernization. Theoretical articulations. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2024, vol.86, n.4, pp.963-990.  Epub Nov 22, 2024. ISSN 2594-0651.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iis.01882503p.2024.4.62668.

This paper analyzes the basic premises of Latin American structuralism (ELA) and explores the main hypotheses of postwar modernization sociology to elucidate their theoretical articulations. It argues that these approaches converge in an attempt to conceptually address the peripheral particularity of Latin America as a specific modulation of the general process of capitalist modernization. Furthermore, it identifies their shared limitations and outlines ways to recover them, updating and improving them so that they can contribute to an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to the region’s development problems in the contemporary capitalist economy.

Keywords : economic development; social structuring; sociology of modernization; Latin American thought; historical-structural approach.

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