Herencias y retos del conocimiento en América Latina

In Latin America, the study of social determinations of knowledge, or what we could call a sociology of ways of thinking, is not common. We can, without mistaking it, assume that such field is virtually unexplored. Life in our subcontinent develops at paces that are hardly captured by social investigation, and those responsible for producing knowledge stay behind really existing changes. The reasons are related to the loss of historical memory, the conservatism and academic haughtiness, which ignores or downplays knowledge produced by their colleagues in other parts of the region, in other tim...