Conservation and progress in the idea of community

Abstract

In this paper describes and explains the revaluation of the unit-idea "community" (Nisbet, 2003 [1966]) within the tradition of the deepest sociological thought, perhaps originating in the discipline, which allows us to analyze a series of contemporary policies, programs and public discourses based on the need to build community under the idea of democratic deepening. Indeed, the community idea-element stands out because it is considered a phenomenon that has a double analytical axis: intellectual origin of the concept versus current political use, all within the modern theoretical-sociological tradition, trying to demonstrate in the following lines that there is the preservation of an original idea of community in sociological thought (contemporaneously applied to government policies), but at the same time the overcoming of itself.