Actores sociales, acciones colectivas y transformación social

Abstract

Since its reopening in 1965, the Universidad Santo Tomás has historically proposed to promote the different substantive functions for institutional development through teaching, research and social projection. The different social processes set out in this text allow us to give an account of the production, transformation and recontextualisation of knowledge through practice, as well as the scope of sociologists in the territories where they carry out research, intervention, training and accompaniment. The Faculty of Sociology has been reconfiguring the concept of intervention towards community accompaniment, given that what is done is to accompany people who are organised or want to organise themselves in order to carry out actions of collective benefit or common good. The exercise in sociology is aimed precisely at putting an end to this traditionalist concept of the action of the individual in the face of research, which is very different from the passivity that had been understood. The subject and what surrounds him, remain in a continuous interaction; then, he challenges and faces those constant changes, allowing this interrelation and forging a new perception to conclude that they are subjects and objects at the same time.