Social imaginaries built around Advertising, from the audience and from advertising itself, undermine scopes, approaches and functions they have into society. This paper aims to present a critical and reflexive analysis of the Advertising’s current role in society, searching for a transformative structure that reveals the importance of research, both in academics and in the creative process behind successful advertising campaigns. It is an invitation to see Advertising with a less reductive view, as a discipline with its own knowledge and deep connections with social and human sciences that goes beyond a simple professional point of view, but does not ignore or exceed it.

Social imaginaries built around Advertising, from the audience and from advertising itself, undermine scopes, approaches and functions they have into society. This paper aims to present a critical and reflexive analysis of the Advertising’s current role in society, searching for a transformative structure that reveals the importance of research, both in academics and in the creative process behind successful advertising campaigns. It is an invitation to see Advertising with a less reductive view, as a discipline with its own knowledge and deep connections with social and human sciences that goes beyond a simple professional point of view, but does not ignore or exceed it.