How to understand what are the revolutions, why they occur despite all of this, what will be its likely route and where and when will take place. Revolutions modern is an interesting study written at the beginning of the 1970s, with the immediate purpose of serving as a basis for the academic monographs that those […]
Richard Sennett: the sociology of the human scale
If sociology appeared in the early TWENTIETH century as one of the social sciences committed to understanding the intricacies of growing the organization’s human, technological revolutions, the wild capitalism and the depersonalization in the links put on, in the new century, in the face of a major challenge. In the midst of that whirlwind, Richard […]
Health, demography and society in the elderly population
The aging of the population has had a marked impact on the societies demographically advanced during the last decades of the TWENTIETH century and all indications are that it will stay in the near future. The present volume deals with the basic knowledge around the aging from a triple perspective: health, demographic, and sociological. With […]
Saskia Sassen, Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 2013
The Jury of the Prize Prince of Asturias of Social Sciences 2013 has failed in the day of today, grant it to the sociologist Dutch Saskia Sassen for her contribution to urban sociology and to the analysis of the dimensions social, economic and political globalization. A few weeks ago was created in Cisolog page Sociologists […]
Research Seminar “The fragments of the city”
Research seminar Organized by: Project Basic Identities and Economic Crisis (CSO2011-32121) Department of Sociology III (Social Trends) National university of Distance Education Presentation: Juan José Villalón Ogáyar “The city’s dual to the fragmented city. The case of Madrid-South“ Madrid-South is part of an archipelago in the metropolitan, I would say Francesco Indovina, which is one […]
Research Seminar on Urban Sociology
Post updated with videos of the Seminar 15, 16 and 17 December at the UNED in Madrid Will be also ONLINE (Call) Organized by: research Project basic Identities and economic crisis (CSO2011-32121) IP: Juan José Villalón DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY III (SOCIAL TRENDS) UNED FUNDED BY THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS On the occasion of […]
International Seminar on the World Values Survey 2010-2014
The “International Seminar on the World Values Survey” will be held at the University of Almeria, on 24 and 25 November 2014.The idea of organizing this meeting part of the interest in the Area of Sociology to the release of the recent release of the sixth wave of the World Values Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org), as well […]
Seminar-Workshop Are Discriminated for being children?
The Association GSIA, next to the Complutense University of Madrid, is a promoter of the Seminar-Workshop “Are Discriminated for being children? A look at the social reality of boys and girls in Spain”. The objective of the seminar is to promote the approach to knowledge and application of the rights of children in research and […]
“If we understand the Sociology as a science, ideology should be left out”. Interview to Jacobo Muñoz Comet
Although he started to work in the trenches as a journalist, Jacobo Muñoz Comet soon became more interested in finding out what are the ins and outs that move the society in portraying them through the paper. Newly-phd in Sociology, the young man is part of the department of Sociology II of the Universidad National […]
SYMPOSIUM: Building the future in times of crisis…
Post updated with videos of the Symposium and Parallel Sessions. See at the end of the post. The National University of Distance Education in collaboration with the Network OcioGune organizes the Symposium “Building the future in times of crisis: new perspectives in the training of young people” that will take place, the next few days […]