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Because it is better to start writing the ideas, which tend to disappear with the old age that always comes. Then. 1. Introduction. A historical approach: consumption as material life. The evolution of the standard of life (or why it is not useful to forget that the consumption is going to be significant and cultural, […]

For a sociologist (which is way more impersonal to say ‘for me’) there are two features that should prove to be interesting on the military organizations: First, they are the only organizations designed, conceived and structured to survive -and to continue to operate without problems – with continuous ‘reductions’ and ‘rotations’ of staff (The use […]

And to avoid that I forget or become lost out there, that I lost my good minutes looking for the information: I guess it will be better to put the projects won in the last contest (2006, the last year) Fondecyt in Sociology: 1061034 ALENDA , STEPHANIE FORMS (NEW) OF INVOLVEMENT IN CHILE: FOR A […]

Reading The Second Friday (sometimes I do act as a bastard) I found myself with an interview to Tironi. And there we said that what we had missed this government was epic, story -ideology to the end. But, if badly I do not remember, a few days after the speech of May 21, Tironi posed […]

One of the features that the reports of the UNDP have been reflected, I think, in all their reports is the idea of the lack of choices of personal actions, because -well – the ‘society’, ‘the system’ (whatever) said that he had to go in a certain direction, and there was more to follow that […]

Well, as the last human development report already came out, I already have a copy (thanks Rodrigo), tap the time to comment. And (sorry Rodrigo), but it seems to me that not turn out so well. Three, I believe, are the main problems: The demand for regulation. The problem is that, in truth, there is […]

Sometimes, you make mistakes blatant. One of them I made today while reading a text by Luhmann (‘The modernity of Modern Society’, in ‘Observations on Modernity’). And then appears the following quote (in note at foot of page) ‘As Giddens rejects an explanation of ‘functional differentiation’, links the concept of society to the level of […]

It all started, for me at least, as innocently as you have a gmail account. And suddenly, checking my mail today, I am looking at an option such as “spreadsheets” what Option spreadsheets?. K, I click on it, and what I find? With that I can create small spreadsheets in the service, to have them […]

Is the quote important? ‘Where are they going to get the almost 4% of the votes that they need to reach the Government? -Baldo Prokurica (RN): “The opposition has been, already on two occasions, very close to being the government. This is an element that, despite being so obvious, it is for the public or […]

Last week I heard a comment the purpose of an initiative of a company in Mexico. Well, the boys -who are in the construction business – have developed a whole series of additional services (for example credit) for low-income groups, abandoned by the market. Now, it is not an initiative as such that I’m going […]