On sociological debates in Mexico and the contemporary pertinence of a latinoamerican classic: José Medina Echavarría and sociology as a concrete social science.

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to show how theorical discussion on mexican sociology has a past-present temporal perspective that constitutes an important heritage, which is important to explore and reinterpret. This task implies to make contemporary, important streams of past knowledge that enrich the present development of sociological thought. We require a profound reflection on experience of time and space in early and late modernities, on the role of conceptual construction, and the status of sociology as a circumstantial social science. This important effort was developed by one of the most important sociologist of the Spanish exhile in Mexico in the twentieth century: José Medina Echavarría. He emphasized the importance of the historical dimension of social phenomena, and of time and space experiences in the development of conceptualization and sociological theory. He considered sociology as a concrete social science, which is a central idea for the development of sociology nowadays.