In the book "Sociology of Political Processes" of which this paper constitutes the last chapter, an attempt has been made to develop a basic system of variables for the description of a society, and a set of hypotheses about the relationships between these variables. For this, various theoretical elements have been taken, and the historical experience, especially of Latin American countries, has been examined. The objective is to facilitate the comparative analysis of political processes. A systematization of this type requires responding in all cases to a common list of questions, necessary to give values to the basic variables mentioned above. The model is here a thought format that implies that society can be described on the basis of a number of variables. The values of the variables for successive periods leave a trace, which represents the historical process.
Keywords:
Political Processes, Latin America, Sociology, Theory and Analysis, Violence
Author Biography
Torcuato S. Di Tella, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Sociólogo argentino. Autor de Sociología de los Procesos Políticos, 1985, y profesor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Di Tella, T. S. (1985). Los procesos políticos en América Latina. Estudios Internacionales, 18(71), p. 349–369. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1985.15759
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