Towards the history of student movement in colombia: fundamental theoretical and methodological elements

Abstract

This paper answers to the question about how to approach the study of the history of the Student Movement (SM) in Colombia from the disciplines Political Science, Politics and Sociology Politics historiography. Initially it starts by justify the relevance of the very purpose of historicizing said object (Colombian SM), ie, the need for the question. In response to it it alluded to the need to undertake efforts descriptive as a first step to understanding our object of study, in the broader framework of Colombian political history as further interpretive context. In a second currently, is argued about the relevance to address the Student Movement study object by theories of collective action and, particularly, of social movements. Once established this need, will be discuss with Charles Tilly some ideas in order to produce a clear operating concept and social movements -differencing it from mobilization of masses- that will be use by the colombian researchers of social movements and particularly the SM develop. Finally, will be exposed the basic descriptive categories that composes the concept of social movement produced. These categories will be unlinked to its American origin and, as an suggestive example, will be developed and operationalized one of them (organizational structure). To conclude, a brief summary of the assay is exposed and in order to contribute to the promotion of academic initiatives on social movements as part of a Colombian political history from the analytical point of view of subordinates, inescapable purpose of declaring every Colombian social scientist committed to our historical and political realities.