Social change and determination

Abstract

The following article wishes to recover, in general terms, a series of methodological problems related to the classical social change theme, relatively separated from theoretical discussion within social sciences since the middle eight hundred nine years. For this matter, we start from the assumption that socio historic conditions are given in order to reach legitimacy in that category critical revision, mainly starting from the present global economic crisis and the need to find answers to the historical development problem. We will approach the problematic link between social change and theory, in order to explore, in a preliminary way, a critical conceptual relationship: which binds the idea of social change to a determination or social determination matter, and as a result, with the arduous social causative quarrel.