Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action: A setting for the analysis of socialization conditions in modern societies

Abstract

The paper focuses on the significance of Jürgen Habermas’s «Theory of Communicative Action» to the explanation of the many and varied social processes that take place in modern societies. In our judgement, Habermas’s theoretical system offers categories which are suitable for carrying out an empirical, explicative analysis of social structure. In this context, we emphasize the socialization conditions in modern educational institutions. This conditions would be analyzed from a theoretically communicative perspective, interrelating the structure sphere with the inter-subjetiveone, ascribing to individuals the necessary capacities for intervening both actively and concurrently in the aforementioned structure sphere and living context.