Immanuel Wallerstein y las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of Immanuel Wallerstein’s work in Latin American social sciences, his work despite being delayed in American sociology, became important in both its approach represented a challenge to the established knowledge, or if you prefer, ideology dominant, particularly modernization theory. It also discusses in his answers to the polemics of Latin Americanists around the concept of a world system of a World of nation-states that are as natural and which establishes the economic and social policy changes on especially for understanding of democracy as political market, as an option to compress the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe and to understand the processes of democratic reconstruction post dictatorial in Latin America. In short, the elements are so important in the work of Wallerstein for the opportunity to discuss the current situation from a point of view that does not begin with accepting the inevitability of dominant liberalism.