What Is Social Imaginary‪?‬

This work consists of a compilation of summaries of several articles whose common axis is the theme that entitles the work: the social imaginary. First of all, Esther Díaz, in WHAT IS THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY? she defines the term for us and gives us a historical overview of its application. Then, B. Baczko in LOS IMAGINARIOS SOCIAL, proposes to analyze the collective representations that societies elaborate about themselves: they constitute ideas-images that appear included in the category of social imaginaries. The author's HYPOTHESIS is that "one of the functions of social imaginaries consists in the organization and control of collective time on the symbolic plane". Subsequently, we present examples of the application of the concept in different settings: "The imaginary of death (1976-1983)", which is part of Melo and Raffin's book IMAGES, MYTHS AND METAPHORS OF ARGENTINE SOCIETY. From the same authors, POWER, SOCIAL IMAGINARY AND LITERATURE. To close, a work by Adrián Melo, THE SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM IN THE TELEVISION SERIES THE X FILES and another by Eliseo Verón, TELEVISION STORY AND SOCIAL IMAGINARY.