Conference of Julio Pérez Díaz in the Cycle of Lectures: “Age…” in the Fundación Juan March on the last Tuesday, April 24, 2012, with the title: “Aging and maturity demographic in Spain” The good work of the Juan March Foundation allows us to that we can listen to the audio of your conference and the […]
Scheme chart of the various currents in Sociological Theory
social Structure and inequality in Spain
The school failure, the “mileuristas”, immigration, inequality between men and women, between young people and adults, the increase in unemployment (especially the youth), the retreat of thirty years of economic inequality, retirement… These are some of the problems facing our country. All are very present in public debates, but when you talk to them, rarely […]
Study on the Sector of the Market Research 2015
AEDEMO, Spanish Association of Market Studies, Marketing and Opinion, ANEIMO, Association of Companies of Market Research and Opinion, and ESOMAR, European Society of Opinion and Market Research, make public the progress of the data of 2015 in the “Study on the Sector of the Market Research 2015”, developed by AEDEMO and ANEIMO for the Spanish […]
Europe and democracy in North Africa: a second chance
The Report Europe and democracy in North Africa: a second chance is presented on Monday 10 June at 18:30 hours at Casa árabe (C/ Alcalá, 62, Madrid, spain) by José Manuel García-Margallo, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. To see the invitation. It is a publication edited by José Ignacio Torreblanca, Eduard Soler and Hélène […]
Evolution of the structure of the occupations
In February 2011 FOREM published the book’ occupational Structure and lack in training in the companies, which was the result of an investigation directed by Luis Garrido Medina, professor of Sociology at the UNED. The objectives of this research tried to know what were the occupations that had withstood the crisis in a better condition, […]
Exclusion and Social Development. Analysis and outlook 2012
It has recently been presented at the headquarters of Cáritas Española in Madrid, the first of a series of annual publications of the Foundation FOESSA (Fomento Social Studies and Applied Sociology), entitled” Exclusion and Social Development. Analysis and Outlook 2012. The data provided by the publication on the situation in Spain is worrisome. Spain is […]
Fallacies and argument
Having No idea of how metaphor, analogy, irony, ambiguity, puns, paradoxes, hyperbole, rhythm, and all the other elements of what we usually call “style” —and in most cases without even recognizing that these resources have importance in the setting of personal attitudes into public form, sociologists lack the symbolic resources with which they could build […]
Families&Societies. New european research project
The UNED and the CSIC are involved in a new european research project that analyzes the changes to family and social policies in Europe How will families in the future? Do they support social policies and current family members with the increasing diversification of family? The 1 of February 2013, has launched a […]
is Physical, social or sociology?
Ediciones Akal has published a few weeks ago, the first translation in Spanish of the twelve lessons relating to the “physical, social” that the French philosopher Auguste Comte published between 1839 and 1842 in volumes fourth, fifth and in the first part of the sixth of his celebrated Cours de philosophie positive. The editorial project […]