Abstract

RODRIGUEZ DE LA FUENTE, José Javier. Contributions of Latin American critical thinking for the study of the class structure and social mobility. Trab. soc. [online]. 2017, n.29, pp.631-648. ISSN 1514-6871.

The study of the links between the processes of development, modernization, social stratification and mobility, was in the center of the postwar discussion on the causes and consequences of changes in the socio-occupational structure. Much of the research that linked these topics were approached from the perspective of modernization theory, under the orthodox consensus structural - functionalist. However, the universalist and evolutionist claim of that paradigm, was widely criticized by other contemporary trends that also theorized about aspects of development in the specific context of Latin America. Thus a reference may be made to both the pioneering, continuous and changing studies of Prebisch, under the orbit of ECLAC structuralism; different approaches including in the so-called "dependency theories" and the analysis of the heterogeneous nature of the economic and social structure of the peripheral countries. In this way, the work proposes to trace elements of these critical approaches that are part of what might be termed "Latin American critical thinking" that were central in discussions produced between the 50s and 70s, for use in the understanding of the processes of structuring classes and the study of social mobility in the Latin American context of the beginning of the 21st century.

Keywords : development; dependency; structural heterogeneity; class structure; social mobility; Latin America.

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