An approach to the “logics” of the social movements from the “social imaginaries”

Abstract

The central purpose of this work is to show the relevance of the «social imaginaries» for a discussion of the emergence, consolidation and persistence of social movements. So begins breaking down the tenets on which will have informed major theoretical formulations that have tried to give an account of collective action. Then, revealing their inadequacies, is introduces in the nature of the dialectical operational between “it instituting” and “it instituted” housed in all social movement. Then, it puts to the discovered it transcendence socio-anthropological of the nexus intimate existing between the sociality and the “social imaginary” in the conformation and maintenance of such movements. Finally, it underpins the need to understand the purposes of them under their capacity to enter in connection with the link knotting sociality, the “social imaginary” and a relational dynamic generated.