Odres nuevos para conceptos viejos.

Abstract

The parallels between the theoretical perspectives of industrial society of the 1960s and the paradigms of production that have emerged over the last two decades of the 20th century are examined in this article. The * Departamento de Sociología y Antropología Social. Universitat de Valencia (Estudi General). 237 Miguel Angel García Calavia Odres nuevos para conceptos viejos author first presents the unique aspects of theories of converging development and of automation and then goes on to explore both the correlation between these two perspectives and the paradigms at the end of the century. Finally, the author puts forward certain epistemological implications that the recent re-edition of these old theories has had.