Abstract

ALIANO, Nicolás. The sociologies of the individual revisited. Explorations between social supports, reflexivities and decenterings of modernity. Reflexiones [online]. 2020, vol.99, n.1, pp.116-136. ISSN 1659-2859.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rr.v99i1.37007.

The article presents a map of contemporary debates about the study of social processes of individuation. Firstly, it analizes the developments of contemporary French sociology around the «social supports» of the person, and the developments of Brazilian social sciences about material and reflective dimensions of the constitution of empirical forms of social agent. A debate is rebuilt between positions that analyzed the social conditions necessary for the emergence of individuals, and others that emphasized the reflective practices deployed by social agents to individualize. In a second part, the article is placed in an empirical case, and analizes the way in which the conceptual matrices presented guided the study of individuation processes in the popular sectors of contemporary Argentina. These inquiries were associated, on the one hand, to show the interaction between mass culture interpellations and «traditional» appropriation matrices, producing specific individuals. On the other hand, they were linked to identifying social factors of individuation - asociated to the sociability networks- that model specific dynamics of individuation in social relegation contexts. Completing the inquiry, is presented a balance of the contributions of this field of studies and the possibility of a convergence of these lines. With this, it propose an approach that integrates the «social» and «cultural» aspects in the study of the dynamics of individuation.

Keywords : Argentina; Individuation; Reflexivity; Popular sectors; Social supports..

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