Latin-American sociology inserts itself in and is different from social scientific creativity under the terms of dominance of the global corporate capitalism. The use and boundaries of its key categories and theories become increasingly rigorous and deep in accordance with the concepts, theories and models in each of its stages. The theories of development and underdevelopment are a typical example of this. How are development and underdevelopment theories constructed and changed between dependence and theoretical autonomy? This paper aims at reconstructing from a theoretical point of view, the most outstanding moments of the sociology of development and underdevelopment in Latin America. It is necessary to take stock and include its contribution to a comprehensive sociological theory of development as part of a social transcultural theory of development in the life of societies

The theoretical contribution of Aníbal Quijano to social thought, social theory and world, Latin American and Caribbean sociology theory is fertile and original. The present article tries to reconstruct some of his ideas in his last creative stage that converge in his preoccupation to build a new horizon of historical sense of a civilization of life. A creative contribution that in its continuity follows the Andean civilizational contributions of Guaman Poma and Mariátegui, posing today the challenge of continuing to enrich its meta-theoretical and theoretical sociological construction with new questions and answers by uniting what modernity / coloniality separated: the true, good and beautiful

Latin-American sociology inserts itself in and is different from social scientific creativity under the terms of dominance of the global corporate capitalism. The use and boundaries of its key categories and theories become increasingly rigorous and deep in accordance with the concepts, theories and models in each of its stages. The theories of development and underdevelopment are a typical example of this. How are development and underdevelopment theories constructed and changed between dependence and theoretical autonomy? This paper aims at reconstructing from a theoretical point of view, the most outstanding moments of the sociology of development and underdevelopment in Latin America. It is necessary to take stock and include its contribution to a comprehensive sociological theory of development as part of a social transcultural theory of development in the life of societies