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The main objective of the present paper is to systematize the contributions of more than 15 15 years teamwork around the understanding of communication as a field of complex inter and transdisciplinary reflections, built on the research practice of the Center for Cuban and Caribbean Social Studies “Dr. José A. Portuondo ”, from the Universidad de Oriente (Cuba). To systematize the results, a large volume of data contained in 49 undergraduated and postgraduated investigations, 60 scientific articles, 8 books, 15 book chapters, as well as the empirical experience accumulated in dozens of communities, cultural projects, social institutions was analyzed., local governments, unions, companies, scientific events among others, where research results have been socialized and introduced. A complex conception of communication of a socio-anthropological and micro-cultural nature is proposed, which is already located in the analysis of the media, cultural management, socio-cultural relations, politics and local development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims an approach to the criteria of Raúl Roa García around the question of method in social sciences, as well as the categories with which he built his apprehension of culture. The study was carried out from a hermeneutic and heuristic analysis of his main works written between 1940 and 1958 was carried out, a period where the bulk of his theoretical production was concentrated. This made it possible to determine that his conception of the culture is based on various theoretical and methodological bases, so on that it built its way of apprehending the complexity of culture and its mediations. In the debate about the appropriate method for the social sciences, Roa opts for a unitary conception that overcomes the traditional and exclusive division between natural and spiritual sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]