%0 Article %A Escobar Delgado, Ricardo Azael %I Universidad Libre %D 2010 %T Las ONG como organizaciones sociales y agentes de transformación de la realidad: desarrollo histórico, evolución y clasificación %U http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=3295702 %X This article develops the topic of NGOs, while social organizations, their historical evolution, their classification and the construction of their own identity, in the implementation of activities and projects that foster collective processes of socio-political transformation of the reality; with the objective of improving the quality of life of individuals and communities at the national and international levels. For this reason, a bibliographic review analytical and conceptual, both on the topic of social organizations, its origin and its realization in the social structure, also a descriptive analysis on NGOs identity. Various classifications that are characterized and theoretical and practical level expressions that have been acquiring and consolidating in time, in changing geographical, social, political and cultural contexts.