Sustainability-based on socioformation and complex thought or sustainable social development

Abstract

This study proposes new lines of research on sustainable social development, by establishing the importance of redefining this concept from complex thinking and socioformation to overcome the limits and gaps. Although sustainable social development tries to rely on the social aspect to achieve sustainability, it lacks specific epistemology and fails to define priorities that will ensure urgent transformations to achieve sustainability. In response to this problem, it has been proposed to use complex thinking and socioformation to improve sustainable social development, as well as to build a transdisciplinary process focused on collaborative training projects aimed at generating the urgent transformations that are required in social organization, education, processes of production and consumption, urbanization and protection of biodiversity.

Keywords

• Complexity
• Complex thought
• Socioecological transitions towards sustainability
• Socioformation
• Sustainability
• Sustainable development