Actores sociales y transformación de la estructura social

Abstract

The social enclosure of the elite, the closure of a type politics that only watches itself, the 'social opacity', according to which the links between the social and the political become hard to distinguish, the predominance of partial views of the democracy, the increase of the technical decisions as counterparts of the reductionist weakening of the politics; all of which are factors that are reinforced by –but they also act as encouragement of- the maintenance of inequality in all of its faces. It is required, in the present time of Chile, to analyze these symptoms within a frame that highlights the linkages –and not the divisions- of the transformations, relating to the issues of the social structure, with the constraints of social actors. If that is not the case, a poor picture of the mutations that are taking place in Chile will be the only outcome.