Perplexity over Sense
Abstract
The aim of this essay is to revisit a topic that has been present in sociology since its origins: the problematic about social sense. We understand that a way of accessing this problem may be the reflection on the cultural imperative that assumes that society must unavoidably produce a set of validated meanings that act as a hegemonic mode of social sense and that allow subjects to interact with each other and the world. This set of meanings, in addition, presupposes the existence of individuals who, due to intrinsic qualities, and/or their social position, become the bearers, spokesmen, transmitters, producers, reproducers and / or transformers of those meanings. So many voices have been heard on this issue but we will focus in one in particular, the one by Daniel Bell who challenges us to move towards other points of view by suggesting that meaning is fragmented in autonomous spheres and that autonomy could be the source of perplexity.
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