Language and action: beliefs, institutions and politics

This article seeks to consolidate the conceptual bases as analytical tools of a social research based on strong conceptions of language and action. This is carried out from the clarification of what can be understood as language and how this necessarily results in human action. Three fundamental components are developed for social research in this regard: beliefs, discourse, and behavior. Each of them is developed in a particular way, with examples of how they can be performed. The binding element of the whole proposal is the practical notion of reason, which not only specifies the conception of language presupposed, but also clarifies the scope of the research questions that are worth investigating in the field of social sciences.