Through the Channel-UNED, the CEMAV (Center of Audiovisual Media of the national distance education university) offers an extensive library of TV programs, radio programs, teleactos, news, etc., A wide collection of educational resources classified in different areas of knowledge. In the area of Sociology we can find up to now more than 740 audiovisual resources […]
Networks of life overflowing. Rationale for the change from the daily life
Living networks always exist, but not all of them are overflowing. Networks, networks, and links are in the ecosystems of nature and of human societies. There are contradictions in their basic interactions that produce sometimes overflows, breaks/changes of the current systems, transformations that open up new paths, both in nature and in the social processes […]
Reflections for a policy agenda: some suggestions
The need to plot a path that does not leave us in the gutter of the irreversible, has led us to prepare two numbers, under the heading of “Reflections for a political agenda:” to offer a different content. The previous one was more focused on a framework exploratory on the structure and the context, and […]
How and why I became a sociologist
I must admit that I was very lucky. I appeared at the parents early enough, I did the first steps on the chair at my mother’s in the geological survey institute, where it was noisy, interesting and fun. Who knows, perhaps the romance of research work, the atmosphere of the eternal search for answers and […]
Reflections for a political agenda: discussion of structural and social inequality
The need to plot a path that does not leave us in the gutter of the irreversible, has led us to prepare two numbers, under the heading of “Reflections for a policy agenda”, presented different content. The first of them, the reader now has in his hands (Discussion of structural and social inequality) is focused […]
Reflections on the work in the household and the family life
The difficult economic situation that they are living in families in today’s world demands a new reflection of what culturally is understood by work at home or home. . […] while the women of the First World has discovered his freedom by acceding to the labour market and work full time, now is seen in […]
Reinventing the social exclusion in times of crisis
Reinvention of the social exclusion in times of crisis Joaquín García Roca Cáritas Española Editores and Fundación FOESSA, 2012 The global crisis is ongoing, and has not done anything more than begin, affecting all the dimensions of what is real. Emits different signals, next to which there are projecting jointly and severally liable for […]
Religion without redemption
Here is the review of the book Religion without redemption of Luis Martínez Andrade that I posted a few weeks ago in Circle of Poetry (also in the Journal Latin american Society). It has the peculiarity that the text has been revised by my great friend Gemma Towers, to which I am very grateful. At […]
Report of Manuel Castells in “I Think, therefore I am”
The last delivery of the program, “I Think, therefore I am” of The 2, has been dedicated to Manuel Castells, one of the sociologists spain’s most internationally known and among the most cited. In this program, Manuel Castells explains what today means to the sociology in a changing world like ours. Manuel Castells is Professor […]
The“Divided Society” of José Felix Tezanos
Each time we find ourselves more immersed in a social transition unparalleled, comparable only to the one that took place when traditional, agrarian societies became societies of industrial capitalists. We are, according to José Félix Tezanos (Professor of Sociology at the UNED), before the technological revolution whose consequences are still quite uncertain, are outlined with […]