About less identified sociologically objects

Authors

  • Néstor García Canclini Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa

Keywords:

cultural field, globalization, nation, networks, theory

Abstract

Sociology’s objects of study were configured when the populations were organized mostly as nations, the political systems as States, the social classes in modes of production and the symbolic practices in artistic, literary and scientific fields. This paper examines how the concept of cultural field, developed by Pierre Bourdieu, has been over passed by the merchandising of the artistic and literary production, for the enterprise alliances and multimedia process (cinema, television, music and video). Also from the consumerism point of view the combined practices of lecture, viewers and internauts are articulated. Nation is other concept that has changed its sense because of the reorganization of the transnational markets and migration. ¿Is it possible to embrace these changes by moving from referred concepts as order into others that catches the circulation? Theories that had proposed nomadism, nets and desterritorialization are discussed (Maffesoli, Latour) as reestructuration lines of the social theory.

Author Biography

Néstor García Canclini, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa

Profesor distinguido en la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México e investigador emérito del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México. Ha sido profesor en las universidades de Austin, Duke, Stanford, Barcelona, Buenos Aires y Sao Paulo. Ha recibido la beca Guggenheim, el Premio Casa de las Américas y el Book Award de la Latin American Studies Association por Culturas Híbridas, considerado en 1992 el mejor libro sobre América Latina. Entre sus otras obras destacan Consumidores y ciudadanos, Culturas híbridas, La globalización imaginada y Diferentes, desiguales y desconectados: mapas de la interculturalidad.

Published

2008-01-01

How to Cite

García Canclini, N. (2008). About less identified sociologically objects. Spanish Journal of Sociology, (9). Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/res/article/view/65064

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