出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：We want to accept the provocation and discuss the speech in the light of Latin American sociology: what does this piece tell us, what does it suggest to us, what does it question. Social science is indebted to the uniqueness of Latin America, and it has experienced that uniqueness since its inception, indeed since its precursors in social thought. That was also a challenge, and a hard one, one of enormous magnitude. That is how Don Simón Rodríguez, Simón Bolívar's mentor, understood it 171 years ago when he told us that to understand these lands it was necessary to see things differently, that we could not repeat imported theories or models without going wrong: "Where will we go to look for models.…Hispanic America is original = ORIGINAL must be its Institutions and its Government = and ORIGINAL must be the ways to found both. Either We Invent or We Err (O inventamos o erramos)." (Rodríguez, 1828-1840/1975, [47]).
