UNA MIRADA CONTEMPORÁNEA DE LA CULTURA: APERTURAS Y NUEVAS VISIONES

This paper is aimed as a insightful look at the definition\ud of culture, in accordance with the processes of\ud change that operate continuously in social, political,\ud economic, both scientific and technological, communications\ud and other areas which define culture. The systematization\ud of culture is conceived, is embodied and works\ud in correspondence with its praxis, likewise, continuously\ud renewed and reevaluated to form part of culture. Different\ud epistemological and philosophical points of view on\ud how a social individual builds his own self-development,\ud are presented in this study. The aforementioned indicates\ud that the limited scope of Social Sciences needs to expand\ud its retrospective look to study human beings from their\ud social essence, their interactions and behaviors. The\ud methods used were based on hermeneutics paradigms,\ud which allowed structuring theoretical and empirical\ud methods. The theoretical methods are: Historical logic,\ud induction, deduction, analysis-synthesis, systemic structure,\ud through documentary analysis. Technical and methodological\ud development, as well as the limited development\ud of thinking in Social Sciences, show a tendency to\ud emphasize the role of “knowing how to do” over “knowing\ud how to think”, breaking man’s perception on reality\ud and culture in the different time periods within each historical\ud moment or longitudinal perspective of the world\ud of life time. In its dynamicity and derived realization,\ud culture settles knowledge projecting and acting on reality\ud itself, which means from reality to culture, mobilizing its\ud thinking (theories, discourses, methods, paradigms, and\ud others) so resulting updated, renovated and productive\ud permanentl