From Particular Sociologies to Interdisiplinary Studies

Abstract

AbstractAs in other parts of the world, at the beginning of the 1980s, sociology in Mexico confronted new theoretical and methodological challenges. From 1980 to 2000, sociology passed through an increasing specialization, a renewed attention to the study of new actors, social identities, subjectivities, and social movements. In line with the transformation of Mexico’s democratic institutions, sociology studies centered on the state, democracy, power, and the political system. During the first decades of the new century, facing the new complex, national, and global circumstances, such as increasing violence, the ecological problems, new migrations and the pandemic, sociology made a shift from the previous emphasis on specialization towards interdisciplinary studies with a more comprehensive approach.