Person: Pérez-Agote Poveda, Alfonso
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Alfonso
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Pérez-Agote Poveda
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
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Sociología
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- PublicationTransformaciones contemporáneas de la relación entre política, cultura y religión en Europa occidental. Un apunte para el caso español(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2016) Pérez-Agote Poveda, AlfonsoSegún Tilly dos leyes defi nen el proceso de transformación de las sociedades europeas occidentales desde la Paz de Westfalia hasta fi nales del siglo XX: la de la progresiva homogeneidad interna de cada una y la de la progresiva heterogeneidad entre todas ellas. La homogeneización cultural interna primero ocurre en relación a los grupos étnicos coexistentes dentro del territorio del Estado. La fase siguiente de homogeneización tendría lugar en relación con las poblaciones inmigradas tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial; proceso que siguió diversos modelos según los países, pero que la crisis de los años setenta, la del petróleo, mostró su general falta de éxito. Durante este último cuarto del siglo XX, estas sociedades se ven así atravesadas por dos lógicas globales, progresivas y contradictorias: la de homogeneización cultural a escala planetaria (ya no de cada sociedad) y la de re-creación cultural llevada a cabo por la población de origen inmigrante, que, responden al fracaso integrador con la búsqueda de fuentes de estima personal y social en su universo cultural-religioso. Este trabajo trata de poner en claro todos estos procesos desde las teorías de la diferenciación social y de la representación política. Esta última se hace necesaria porque los citados procesos ocurren en un momento en el que estas sociedades están atravesando por una crisis radical de la estructura de relación –de comunicación– entre la sociedad civil y la esfera política democrática. Se traza así un esbozo de las complejas relaciones entre sociedad civil, cultura, religión y política en estas sociedades europeas occidentales.
- PublicationThe notion of secularization: Drawing the boundaries of its contemporary scientific validity(2014-10-08) Pérez-Agote Poveda, AlfonsoThe notion of secularization as an incompatibility between modernization and religion derives from the analysis of the process of modernization of Western European societies. This process led to a weight loss of religion in society and to a progressive differentiation of social spheres, such as religion, politics, science, etc. Following on from this analysis the category and the theory were extended to take on a universal scope in order to describe the modernization processes that would occur in other societies. From the very beginning, sociology has provided exceptions to the rule of secularization. The first was noted by de Tocqueville: American exceptionalism. Then came the processes of rapid economic growth of some Asian Pacific countries (Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc.). Progressively, the entry of new countries into the field of interest of sociologists is showing the Eurocentric nature of the concept. The case of Western Europe, which was the rule, became the exception. Even the notion of religion as a separate social sphere is considered by some social scientists to be ethnocentric. Despite its previous Eurocentrism, the notion of secularization remains useful for sociologists. It has served to account for European religious change, and its analytical instruments can be applied to other cases and may be useful for interpreting these cases either with regard to how they adhere to the Western European model, or how they differ from it – still further, if we consider the huge extent of contemporary international migration. If sociologists want to understand the new Western European societies, they must reapply this analytical rather than predictive version of the concept.
- PublicationNew Frontiers and Relations between Religion, Culture and Politics in Western Europe(MDPI, 2018-04-27) Pérez-Agote Poveda, AlfonsoSociology was born as a discipline that analyzed the process of modernization of Western European societies. However, in turn, this science was developing a predictive, prophetic vision of the future of human communities, assuming that they were all going to follow paths similar to those followed by Western Europeans. This prophetic dimension reduced the capacity of sociology to analyze new phenomena including, on the one hand, phenomena relating to other societies, on the one hand, but also, on the other hand, phenomena related to the transformations suffered by Western European societies after their process of modernization. This last case constitutes the objective of this work, in which I try to recover the purely analytical character of sociology. To this end, I intend to relate the general model of the political modernization of Western European societies elaborated by historical sociology to the theory of social differentiation, avoiding the evolutionary drift of this theory. From that position, I try to specify the analytical nature of some conceptual instruments of sociology, in order to make them more useful to understanding the contemporary social transformations of Western European societies. Some of these transformations have changed the tendency towards the cultural homogenization characteristic of modernization, because after the two world wars these societies began to receive strong flows of immigration.