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Some day I’m going to use this blog to put together a list of myths about our poor country, but for now it will suffice to discuss the things that are said about the sense of entrepreneurship in Chile. The first thing is that the phenomenon is oversized. One tends to think of with respect […]

The do classes has several consequences. One of them is that one is faced with things that, maybe you already knew, but there are a lot more patents to have the front students. Now that I’m doing classes of methodology in a career in sociology, I faced one of them. The idea of course is […]

I did notice the other day that there was a problem with my comment about the UNDP and its forgetfulness of the vocation to the future of the low: the project of the groups low (educate your children) does not seem as ‘project’. In the end, the sectors media, too. And if by ‘subjectivity’. wouldn’t […]

Because now, well it is a beta closed although you are supposed that should open it soon, they have a service to create and have personal pages. It would be one without San Google. E-mail, Google News, Google Desktop, Google Maps (and there is also Google Mars, which are maps of Mars), and so many […]

From, say, 1938, the right has won a single presidential election in Chile (Alessandri). The right has gobnernado more time (not only during the dictatorship, but within the governments radical), by the way has been an electoral force, and policy is pretty powerful. But it can’t win presidential elections. In some cases, as studied Moulian […]

Recently I have touched the never very pleasant task of reviewing evidence in the course of Sociology of Consumption that I am giving. And among the various things that caught my attention is one that has a relationship with my favorite subject -history. One of the questions of this test had to do with that […]

Some of the oldest organizations usually make a distinction between the range and the position. For example: In the Catholic Church, it is one thing to be a bishop / cardinal; the other bishop /archbishop. In the Armed Forces, it is one thing to be a captain / major / colonel; another is to be […]

The other day -to tell the truth a couple of weeks but had not had time – I listened to the radio in a taxi (in a hurry as always to get to a part) and I heard Jocelyn-Holt to talk about the recent controversy with respect to the books stolen from the Library of […]

Ever, among the countless ideas I have had and I have not followed, it occurred to me that it would be a good idea to write a text similar to the Rules of The Method Sociological. Among other reasons, because it seems to me that what is missing-oddly, in a discipline so concerned about methodological […]

Given that I’m doing a course of consumption, I was re-reading A Theory of Shopping Daniel Miller, and then I found the following phrases: ‘Here, as is often the case, there is no evident resentment at being identified unambiguously with housewifery. On the other hand, there is a considerable desire that this should be appreciated […]