Democracia y protesta social: un análisis sobre la dimensión social de la democracia

Abstract

From the bestowal of universal suffrage, the 20th century democratic societies shown an unavoidable relationship between the political and  the social. The politicization of the social in these societies may originate from any field of society; stop being an exclusive field for such politicization. Likewise, it is accurate to point out how the social achieves the politicization throw collective action, including the several forms in with collective action expresses itself. The Southern Cone democratic regimes present some differences with the characteristics that European democracies have assumed. A review of the literature made during the ‘90s allows the approach to “political culture” concept as a relevant way for the analysis of mutual effect relations between democracy and collective action. Indeed, “political culture” may have the ability to explain the different fields from where the social is politicized as the heterogeneous ways and political traditions that are found in collective actions.