Institutions and fetishes: the "dark matter" problem in social sciences

 

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Verfasser: Mora Jiménez, Henry
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2019
Beschreibung:The field of social sciences that studies concepts associated with collective entities, that is the theory of fetishism, has faced the problem of the visibility of the invisible since the beginning. It may include partial collectives (companies, schools, armies) or general collectives, such as the social division of labor, market, and State. It is a world of ghostly subjects that have the possibility to dominate us and that ultimately, and to a great extent, end up doing so. Given the growing role of institutions from the dawn of civilization to the present day regarding the pronounced reduction of direct human relationships in modern societies, if we do not grasp and understand the meaning of these fetishes, we will understand very little of the social universe and its fetishization. This is the reason why we state that these fetishes in social sciences are the equivalent of "dark matter" in astrophysics.
Land:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Sprache:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/11514
Online Zugang:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/economia/article/view/11514
Stichwort:institutionalization
human relations
fetishes
dark matter
freedom
Institucionalización
relaciones humanas
fetiches
materia oscura
libertad
Institucionalização
relações humanas
matéria escura
liberdade