What Is Social Imaginary?: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

This work consists of a compilation of summaries of several articles whose common axis is the theme that entitles the work: the social imaginary. First of all, Esther Díaz, in WHAT IS THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY? she defines the term for us and gives us a historical overview of its application. Then, B. Baczko in LOS IMAGINARIOS SOCIAL, proposes to analyze the collective representations that societies elaborate about themselves: they constitute ideas-images that appear included in the category of social imaginaries. The author's HYPOTHESIS is that "one of the functions of social imaginaries consists in the organization and control of collective time on the symbolic plane". Subsequently, we present examples of the application of the concept in different settings: "The imaginary of death (1976-1983)", which is part of Melo and Raffin's book IMAGES, MYTHS AND METAPHORS OF ARGENTINE SOCIETY. From the same authors, POWER, SOCIAL IMAGINARY AND LITERATURE. To close, a work by Adrián Melo, THE SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM IN THE TELEVISION SERIES THE X FILES and another by Eliseo Verón, TELEVISION STORY AND SOCIAL IMAGINARY.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Oct 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201874964

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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What Is Social Imaginary?

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

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WHAT IS SOCIAL IMAGINARY?

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WHAT IS SOCIAL IMAGINARY ?

For centuries, in the East it was thought that a central attribute of female beauty was having small feet; in the 19th century, in the West, the beautiful woman was chubby, while today she is identified with thinness.

We are talking about examples of different social imaginaries, from which values, tastes, opinions and behaviors of the people who form a certain culture originate.

While imagination is an individual attribute that recreates or invents representations, the imaginary is collective, it is a network of relationships between practices and discourses in which individuals interact, and that is built from the coincidences of values ​​between people, although also from resistors.

This imaginary has two forms of manifestation:

the symbolic (values ​​and language) and

social practices (concrete actions of individuals).

But it is not only a sum of individuals, but it takes on its own dynamics, being a process without a subject, or that goes beyond them, settling in institutions, which are associations of people who, united by a common goal, have a economic, building and legal apparatus (company, club, university, and all relationships between at least two people who share speeches and practices).

The institutionality also requires sharing a language (two people who love each other form the human couple institution, two friends chatting form the friendship institution, etc.).

The behaviors that individuals carry out aim to satisfy certain models or ideals that they consider should be followed, paradigms or ideas that govern the aspirations, politics, education, economics, religion, etc., of a community.

In this way, the collective imagination is the interaction between collective valuation and individual valuations.

These ideas produce effects in reality: if magic is valued in society, someone ill will turn to a witch, if technical is valued, they will go to a doctor.

The difference between the self and the subject

The individual is social when he shares with others a symbolic system; the most important of these is language, made up of meaningful words, which are rationally articulated.

Each individual sees himself as a psychological and empirical entity: he knows that what he is today and what he was as a child form a unit, which is the I. This I is formed, not only from itself, but also by the environment, other people