Abstract

FABRE MACHADO, Idalsis; RIERA VAZQUEZ, Celia M.  and  ROQUE DOVAL, Yamila. Theoretical Pathways for a Sociological Analysis of Corruption. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2021, vol.36, n.104, pp.221-237.  Epub Mar 28, 2022. ISSN 2007-8358.

Corruption is a social phenomenon historically situated in a social and cultural structure. For this reason, the approach for analyzing it must be framed in a way that makes it possible to reveal the processes through which it is exalted, naturalized, and made invisible in society. That is why this article aims to establish the basis for the criteria that legitimize sociology as a coherent theoretical tool for the study of corruption, given its ability to articulate its different dimensions from a multidisciplinary platform. It does this by demonstrating the phenomenon’s socio-structural content and the main mechanisms whereby it is produced and reproduced in the social fabric.

Keywords : corruption; structure; institutionality.