THE CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY: ANTAGONISM BETWEEN THE DURKHEIMIAN TRADITION AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF NORBERT ELIAS

Abstract

This article seeks to understand the antagonistic concept of the individual and society from the Durkheimian tradition to the contemporary Norbert Elias. It is a theoretical text with bibliographic research, which reflects on the concepts addressed by these two authors. This reading contributes to highlight different perspectives in the understanding of the individual and society and that one perspective completes the other, although antagonistic, because both are concerned, each in its own time, with understanding this construction of the individual and society, emphasizing the importance of sociology as a scientific field of study