The contribution of “situated thinking” to think about social processes

Abstract

This article attempts to recover the postulates of Situated Thought, systematizing interpretations from different authors but mainly on the works of Dr. Alejandro Auat. This brings us a wide theoretical trends compilation that allows us to understand the idea of situationality, which he calls conceptual constellation. Since the idea of situationality goes beyond “the obvious allusion to the circumstances that imprint a particular bias to each thought”, that is, to a thought produced under a certain context, rather is about adding a critical, gnoseological and axiological perspective to it, from the point of view from which one speaks and thinks. Moreover, this implies a political position, taking a stand and goes against the dominant thinking in social sciences.

After the foundations of this thoughts being reviewed, it will be attempted to make a brief synthesis of some contributions that brings to the researchers to think of different social processes, within the social sciences. Although, this will not be an exhaustive analysis that recovers all the potential contributions, but those that are considered as central.