Culture as Social Capital for Development and Integration in Latin America

Authors

  • Ignacio Medina Núñez Universidad de Guadalajara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/cl.v0i15.5917

Keywords:

culture, identity, development, integration.

Abstract

This article discusses and proposes theoretically the concepts of culture and identity related to social capital so that they can become instruments for better development and integration projects in Latin America. The concept of culture is very controversial because there are multiple meanings for the same word but here is also proposed, along with the common features tha distinguish one community or population, the possibility of converting the Latin American culture in an ideological current for the Bolivar´s dream about a great American homeland, recalling also the words of Edgar Morin in the sense that culture is everything that helps us to contextualize, globalize and anticipate possible worlds in the near future.

Author Biography

Ignacio Medina Núñez, Universidad de Guadalajara

__________________________________________________________________ * Prof. Medina is Ph D in Social Sciences working at the Universidad de Guadalajara, México, at the Departamento de Estudios Ibéricos y Latinoamericanos (DEILA), Guadalajara, Mexico.

Published

2016-07-26