Community

Abstract

The human being is an animal that by itself will never develop culture, or language, much less some type of capital. The main error of methodological individualism is to think that social action begins when an individual-actor faces another loaded with motivations and with specific intentions. Social action is the manifestation, the result, of the cultural learning that absolutely all human beings have received in their communities or social groups. It is the community that provides the meaning that the individual will understand and reproduce in the form of art, politics, economics, religion, among other forms, and it is the relationships between individuals that give meaning to their participation in the community. possession of a certain capital or a certain knowledge. It is important to return, then, to the founding notion of the community as a cultural group to understand how individuals acquire and reproduce knowledge and how individuals carry out actions around their communities and their social groups, including, of course, development.