Los sectores medios ante la era neoliberal: Transformaciones y contradicciones del desarrollo en Chile

Abstract

This article reflects on the conditions of possibility that present the middle sectors to exert an active role in the current mode of development in Chile, as they are discursively presented and questioned from the political sphere. First, we examine the reconfiguration of the power relations during the past decades and the resulting articulation of a new societal model. Based on this, the changes in the occupational structure and the social integration mechanisms in the middle sectors are analyzed, glimpsing both their constitutive basis and their normative fabric. Finally we consider the tensions between those changes and the discursive interpellations directed to the middle sectors nowadays.