Epistemology of human rights as social construction. A proposal from the Berger and Luckman theory

Authors

  • Antonio Yesid Pedroza Estrada UPC Escuela Superior de Administración Pública, ESAP. Universidad Popular del Cesar, UPC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30972/rfce.2524569

Keywords:

social imaginaries, human rights, collective construction

Abstract

The protection of human rights, today, does not have the desired effectiveness because it is treated more as a philosophical concept than as a political situation. The fundamental problem of human rights today is not to justify them but to protect them. To do so requires more work from the State, but also, greater understanding and knowledge of society to understand its social imaginaries that help to build public problems and public policies around the issue. This research is positivist, with a qualitative approach, type: documentary, design: descriptive - deductive, interpretation technique: hermeneutics. Main theoretical lines: Berger and Luckman, Habermas, and Bobbio. Research question: Can state actions in defense and promotion of human rights be strengthened by understanding the social imagination of a given community? Conclusions: The consequent public problems of the social problems of human rights are the result of the construction of consolidated social imaginaries through a community language, developing public policies from the State that make the language of human rights effective is not only a duty, but also a strategy that would help to build greater stages of democracy in a historical moment that humanity needs it most.

Published

2020-12-04

How to Cite

Pedroza Estrada, A. Y. (2020). Epistemology of human rights as social construction. A proposal from the Berger and Luckman theory. Revista De La Facultad De Ciencias Económicas, 25(2), 139–159. https://doi.org/10.30972/rfce.2524569

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Section

Artículos Científicos