El desarrollo maniatado en América Latina. Estados superficiales y desigualdades profundas

Fernando FILGUEIRA. CLACSO-CROP Series. CLACSO. Buenos Aires, December 2008.

Even tough Latin America shares some levels of development with other regions in the world, Latin America is a particular case because it presents a very particular form of development. This is seen in three important socio-structural dimensions: levels of inequality; coexistence across demographic transitions with respect to infant and senior people‟s dependence and the high level of urbanization. These dimensions represent a key variable in order to understand space and essential vectors of human development from a sociological perspective and to more clearly identify limitations and possibilities and types of transformation needed in the social state in order to help, promote and give substance to the millennium development goals. The book argues that in order to reach a new model for social protection it is important go beyond the millennium development goals and to understand socio-structural vectors which defines cultural space.