Social representations and social movements : rupture and constitution of subjects

Abstract

One of the theoretical problems in the study of great social transformations is the constitution of the social subject, or revolutionary subject, that carries out the change, when it comes to real social ruptures and not simulated changes. In the present work we reflect on the role that social representations have within social subjectivity, as propitiatory of the "subjective rupture", which makes the constitution of new social subjects possible. The role of social movements as public spaces where subjective ruptures and the creation of new identity referents take place is also analyzed. These phenomena are observed in the particular case of Mexico, covering the period of the eighties and nineties.