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It is possible, it is not safe but it is possible that next year will be new to make the Methodology course. A course that, as he had raised in his time, there is that change. Now, they are still true that: Pass the ‘theory’ of the methodology it seems to me absurd. I know […]

For the theme of the methodology course I have forgotten to put any more texts. The Distinction, Bourdieu. How the hell I forgot? It’s entertaining, has a very good discussion of methodology in annex and is a very good research. Some research Panel, and as the English make millions of these studies, one English. Let […]

The quote is from Charles Tilly (and if you don’t know who Tilly would be good what to find out, the guy is very interesting). But let’s start with the quote: ‘Those attractions [find variations] have, unhappily, tempted social scientists into some oftheir greatest technical abuse. There is the abuse of the Great Blender, in […]

Due to labour issues, in the last time I had to devote to the study of organizations. And one of the things that I have noticed is all the literature (and trade demand) for the pursuit of excellence and search -finally – behavior ‘star’ on the part of people who act in organizations. But what […]

(And it is always something nice to see your own name printed. Today he came out -finally and after a couple of years – the book of methodology with my poor articulito on quantitative data analysis*) Well, the point of this brief post: The sociogía is not, it should not be, the discipline that discusses […]

Take, by way of example, the interesting study of Myron Gutman, concerning the economy of the Lower Maasland in early modern times. The author offers lots of seemingly convincing evidence that, from 1620 until 1749, the depredations of armies, large and small, did not cause the demographic or economic collapse of the area: both population […]

Perhaps it would be good to continue with this type the basic things that my good (or bad) understanding to make a good explanation from a sociological standpoint. We had said (in may) that a good tenet was the equality of actors. Now the idea is to develop another, which is well related: An explanation […]

Some of the affirmations -that we will leave now only as ideas, and this will save us the tedium of developing(*). 1) social life, The interactions, are composed of meanings. There is No such thing as the interaction is not significant. That is the basis of all the qualitative techniques: finding the meaning. 2) Now, […]

The thesis is simple: The perceptions of consumerism in Chile are based on a mismatch between the current realities of the country and expectations based on a very different reality. And this is based on a thesis even more simple: The Chile of the ’80s ( and before) as the country was downright poor. The […]

Now, a good part of these programs (click on the title of the post to see the link) are not of sociology (but related to social aspects -programs for genealogies or collaboration software). What is important and interesting is that it uses the name of our old discipline. Sociology appears in very strange places from […]