Saavedra, J. 2015. Cuatro argumentos sobre el concepto de intervención social. Cinta moebio 53: 135-146

PDF | HTML

Four arguments about the concept of social intervention

Dr. Juan Saavedra (jsaavedr@ubiobio.cl) Departamento Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Bío-Bío (Concepción, Chile)

Abstract

This article exposes four arguments on the debate about the nature and conceptual range of social intervention, understanding it equally as action, interpretation, distinction and finally as a discursive dispositive. This debate has relevance for social sciences disciplines in which intervention notion has an important place in its theoretic-methodological structure. This review sets a counterpoint with technological perspectives that reduce intervention to action’s execution. In this way, there is a discussion about epistemic and ontological social sciences communities’ subordination in which intervention is a hallmark.

Key words: social intervention, applied epistemology, arguments, complexity, discourse.