The first book in Spanish about the festival, largest in the world. The hindu traditions have many followers in the West. The author has a blog well-visited and influential. With a spread of illustrations to color. A book invaluable for those looking to soak in the hindu tradition, and a brilliant approach to the universal […]
Javier Prieto. Sociology
Javier Prieto, based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is a student of Sociology at the UNED, as stated in his blog: […] seeks to learn, to apprehend, to show and share the different thoughts traditional and contemporary of this social science [Sociology]. Javier Prieto is a great friend and one of the best companions that […]
Göran Therborn, Doctor Honoris Causa by the national university of distance education 2014
The past January 28, the sociologist Swedish Göran Therborn was invested Doctor Honoris Causa at the UNED during the celebration of the feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The professor of Sociology of the UNED, Jose Felix Tezanos Tortajada, was the godfather of Göran Therborn, a sociologist and political scientist that stood out as an intellectual […]
Interview with Fermín Bouza
The conservative cycle in Europe seems to be coming to an end. Fermín Bouza (Santiago de Compostela, 1946), professor of Sociology, Complutense University, please be assured that France will open the gap of a Europe ruled by the left to relax the current austerity policy imposed by Angela Merkel. Bouza intervened a few days in […]
Rethinking happiness
These last few weeks I’ve been finishing a book that, since a long time, was on my list of books pending: I speak of the work of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman think fast, Think slow. Kahneman, a Nobel laureate in economics, has passed into the history of science for his work, along with Amos Tversky […]
Zygmunt Bauman and education in a world of diasporas
The interest it has in the framework of social education, we rescued today an article written by José López Ponce on the conference that Zygmunt Bauman held in November 2008 during his visit to the city of Barcelona. Source: Rhizomatic. By José López Ponce (28/11/2008) Education in a world of diasporas, is the title of […]
Spot promotion grade Sociology University of Alicante
The Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University of Alicante, through the departments of Sociology I and Sociology II, and other institutions, has developed a spot enterprise to promote the degree in Sociology from the University of Alicante. This video, aimed especially at students of secondary education, summarizes the general aspects of the […]
Power, exchange, and ideology
As this has been a day of work and already I’m tired, I’m just going to write the skeleton of the idea-which we hope to develop later: The interactions can be divided, from the point of view of the ‘initiator’ (the claim that alter perform an action) in the following: Domination: When threats to remove […]
The lack of Poetics in the Theory of Luhmann
Something we had already said in a previous post, but the appointment is now pretty clear I think: According to this, science is a system of structurally determined of a particular type. But apart from this it is also an autopoietic system, that is to say, a system that produces itself, by means of a […]
The birth of Modernity
It was when they began to publish scientific journals: The first, on the 5th of January, 1665, the Journal des sçavans by Denis de Sallo. Then, on 6 March, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (which I believe something more important because of its connection to an official organization). Therefore, the decision that ‘the Philosophical […]