La espacialidad social en el estudio de la industrialización: Estructuras sin escalas, territorios sin sujetos

Abstract

This paper proposes a methodological discussion for critically applying the social space approach to the study of the industrialization processes. The social space or "sociospace" is proposed as a conception on the dual nature of the social integration: the practices oriented towards the production and reproduction of the material environment (spatial orientation), and the practices oriented towards the production of sociability (interactional orientation).To the end of applying this approach to industrialization, the paper proposes focusing on the social actors, the institutions (or economic governance regime), and the industrial trajectories. We close analyzing the state, firms and work from the dual optic of the functional / territorial integration.