REFLEXIONES CONCEPTUALES SOBRE LOS ESTUDIOS HISTÓRICOS DE LA SOCIEDAD IBEROAMERICANA. ENTRE LA DEMOGRAFÍA HISTÓRICA Y LA HISTORIA DE LA POBLACIÓN. HISTORIA SOCIAL: LA IMPORTANCIA DE LA FAMILIA/BETWEEN HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION HISTORY. SOCIAL HISTORY: THE IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY

It is essential to define the fields of history, in order to provide the researcher, on the one hand, the delimitation of its investigations, and the reader, on the other, the methodological and theoretical work analyzed. It is necessary to differentiate the action areas of historical demography and population history as related and complementary disciplines. At the same time seeks to claim the regional research, differentiating them from the work of microhistory, whose value is incalculable. Contributions from local scale enable comparative studies of various areas and the establishment of consistent and differences, extremely useful in the field of scientific research.