Por uma sociologia imaginativa: o presente do passado no processo de cristalização cultural

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the process of cultural crystallization within the scope of col- lective memory for Information Science from the perspective of imaginative sociology. The method is based on foucaltian philosophical analytics, practices of the lived were interpreted, as everyday expe- riences, and of discourses disseminated on Facebook, establishing reflections about the processes of cultural crystallization in the light of imaginative sociology. As a result, it is clear that cultural crystal- lization is a movement that can promote a fallacious harmonic narrative and return to the past. Col- lective memory, when used to support a process of cultural purification, can compromise social and scientific thinking in a linear configuration. The lived and its daily actions can have consequences in the context of marginalization and the construction of science itself. Concluded, following the afore- mentioned sociological perspective, it is essential to overcome the notion of harmony, partial and biased artificiality and understanding of the hierarchy of sciences. This process of cultural crystalliza- tion for Information Science can happen through the analysis of imaginative sociology and the strategic use of the phenomenon of "entrenchment", being a perspective based on the opposition of the dual and of fragmentation.