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On second thought, in matters theoretical, I believe that I have had only two ideas in my life. And I imagine that since were the only two ideas that occurred to me. If none of them is very bright, at least it should put them here by pure exhaustion of inventory. The first (the second […]

The profit is a scourge. Now, what is the problem of profit? Not that those who are under their schools are exploited, but -in fact – that may not have access to the schools for profit have a bad education. Better, worse education. Because the center of the issue is not the quality of education, […]

For various reasons, these last few weeks has touched me to read (and re-read) several texts by Norbert Lechner. And as I read them I realized that there are underlying (and sometimes explicit) of a number of theoretical ideas that, in reality, are not too appropriate. Taking into account, furthermore, that the ideas that Lechner […]

Sometimes students are tranquilizers. Only today occurred to them to tell me that the things that we were seeing in methodology had already seen and why we don’t centrábamos in the design of instruments. And then the reaction: ¡Viva! O wonder of wonders! In a single act, will solve all my problems with the course. […]

With regard to the death of R. of Course, I remembered -in fact, it was the topic at the meeting, which was on that day – the most famous use of a Kyoto that has memory. Now, the theme of this Kyoto were two candidates -Piñera and Matthei. I don’t know if we were already […]

The idea of the modern project in sociology(*) is associated to the idea that the modernity has to do with the freedom (Wagner, if wrong I am not mistaken, relates intímamente), or rationality (so remember to Weber). And so in general we think that refers to the modern project. But, it will not be out […]

In several parts I have read that a criterion is relatively useful to define the nebulous middle class is simply using a criterion focused on the median: A group that has an income defined as a percentage of the median (let’s say between 75% and 125% of the median income, which as mentioned Barozet and […]

In a previous post on the income of the independent compared to the dependent, we mention that the comparison of the averages hid the theme of the variations. In particular, the self-employed had a higher probability to get high income that the dependents (to the same educational level): a person of low educational level had […]

The first premise of the rules is that all actors have the same capabilities. Not necessarily have to possess the same characteristics, and we can variarlas –even though it may be possible, it is interesting to try to explain the differences in them from their differences in the social fabric rather than in attributes of […]

A consequence of the above discussion is that any discussion of method has commitments theorists. It corresponds, then, to raise the commitments to theoretical underlying this discussion of the method. In the social world there are agents, and there are actions. The basis of the discussion that we will develop below is that the above […]