The social capital under discussion. Case of rural development in Mexico

Rethinking the territory since the modernisation and subalternisation processes, different ways of capital expansion is researched in the countryside. It is analyzed the character that the territorial mobility of capital and work assumes in northern and Patagonian agro regions of Argentina. On one side, two agro export regions are characterized by the accelerated, concentrated, and big scale entrepreneurial expansion: one of them with intensive cultures and strong demand of seasonable workers and the other one, in extensive annual cultures highly mechanized with little demand of workers. On the other side, a region of extensive herd breeding with peasantry features. The effect of capital penetration is associated to the contradictory characteristic of the modernization process. It is a different interpretative approach to the notion of incomplete modernization, to the unique trend of the globalization. Thinking over heterogeneity in the processes of territorialization, changes and persistence in the social space, as well as marginalization accompanying subalternization, are outlined in the final remarks.