| Sumario: | This article presents a journey through the thought of Spanish sociologist José Medina Echavarría, whose work has maintained a sense of permanence within Latin American social sciences. Medina Echavarría put into practice in Latin America the sociology of development, introducing the importance of the social. Medina maintained that development does not imply, exclusively, the achievement of economic goals, but that it also must assume the obtaining of democratic ends. Throughout his career, Medina assumed Weberian positions to define, among other matters, the spontaneous forces that can change society. Medina Echavarría’s contribution can be summarized in three essential points: the understanding of a concrete sociology of the culturalist and historicist type; the encounter and understanding among Latin American sociology and other academic disciplines, especially the science of economics; sociology and science as instruments at the service of human beings.
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