La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay

More than ever, in recent times, the democracy discourse in the region was governed by a two-sided social dichotomy: dictatorship/democracy. The following article aims to respond to the question: What is democracy to social beings? Thus it focuses on the inclusive definition of democracy and it anal...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6b44e157dfc34de8af1f0fd9a25986a92021-12-02T10:31:11ZLa democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.67331https://doaj.org/article/6b44e157dfc34de8af1f0fd9a25986a92014-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/67331https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252More than ever, in recent times, the democracy discourse in the region was governed by a two-sided social dichotomy: dictatorship/democracy. The following article aims to respond to the question: What is democracy to social beings? Thus it focuses on the inclusive definition of democracy and it analyzes socio-historic processes that parted from the aforementioned social constructs. It identifies how its conceptualization is transmitted through its construction. It utilizes the findings of an investigation that was organized in one of Paraguay’s neighborhoods, between the years of 2010 and 2012, in the context of the first governmental drift, which happened after the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship (1954-1989). Social transformation and displacement are become afloat due to what happened in the past, during the dictatorship, and in the present, in a democracy.The outcome that derives from this analysis comes from a communication perspective, which has a clear understanding of this social discourse and sees it as a place where meaning can be negotiated, re-created, and re-confirmed. Throughout their lives, individuals adopt social stratification through: collective identity, a variety of social-economic conceptualizations, as well as symbols, historic and cultural constructs, which then become evidence of this process.Rossana GómezCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américainsarticledemocracysocio-historic processessocial constructssocial discoursecommunicationAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2014)
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topic democracy
socio-historic processes
social constructs
social discourse
communication
Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
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socio-historic processes
social constructs
social discourse
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Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
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Rossana Gómez
La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay
description More than ever, in recent times, the democracy discourse in the region was governed by a two-sided social dichotomy: dictatorship/democracy. The following article aims to respond to the question: What is democracy to social beings? Thus it focuses on the inclusive definition of democracy and it analyzes socio-historic processes that parted from the aforementioned social constructs. It identifies how its conceptualization is transmitted through its construction. It utilizes the findings of an investigation that was organized in one of Paraguay’s neighborhoods, between the years of 2010 and 2012, in the context of the first governmental drift, which happened after the fall of Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship (1954-1989). Social transformation and displacement are become afloat due to what happened in the past, during the dictatorship, and in the present, in a democracy.The outcome that derives from this analysis comes from a communication perspective, which has a clear understanding of this social discourse and sees it as a place where meaning can be negotiated, re-created, and re-confirmed. Throughout their lives, individuals adopt social stratification through: collective identity, a variety of social-economic conceptualizations, as well as symbols, historic and cultural constructs, which then become evidence of this process.
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title La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay
title_short La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay
title_full La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay
title_fullStr La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay
title_full_unstemmed La democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. Análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de Asunción – Paraguay
title_sort la democracia como discurso: sentidos en tránsito. análisis de la producción del significado en una localidad barrial de asunción – paraguay
publisher Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
publishDate 2014
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