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If there are actors, then there is no alternative to recognizing that actions do have meaning for them. What do we mean with the above? A statement very simple: That every actor requires a map of the world, have distinctions and rules that relate those distinctions to be able to move . To be able […]

Being born in a family where everything is in the physics profession, I also wanted to become one. But it so happened that my parents were seriously convinced that they did not want such a fate for me, and my mother at that time was carried away by sociology. On the family council, it was […]

The assertion that every action has consequences and should not require further defense. To perform an action implies the use of some resources –those needed to carry it out-and those resources are not available after this action. To perform an action means you get certain results –results that involve certain changes with respect to the […]

The previous sections have been rules about necessary aspects to take into account for a proper description of the social life. The following postulate is a rule on where it should focus of such description or explanation. A very important part of the effort of the social sciences is simply to show the importance of […]

The argument that we have developed in these pages is based on the assumption that the social sciences are, can be, indeed, a science. To be more precise, the project of a description and a rational explanation of the social reality is possible and valid. In other words, that it is possible for an approximation […]

To purpose of the recent hunger strike of the mapuche, in the list Chilesoc appeared some requirements to sign a statement of support about your situation. So far, all reasonable. Now, you asked for it to be a statement of support for both sociologists (and initially using the word expert). Which I thought was inadequate-because […]

This of you begin to talk of other things makes one forget that this was initially a blog about sociology, and that there are issues half-written. As the diptych on modernity. In the first part, criticizing the idea that we had about what was the modern project. And had been announced -for shame total – […]

Some ideas thinking in the social order at the level of societal or whatever you call it to a set of relationships. I don’t think it’s possible the ‘disorder’ social at lower levels (that is, one will always find with social practices, with nets, with some kind of role), At least, because human beings simply […]

In reality, this is nothing more than a rehash. I had originally organized, edited and expanded several posts on the methodology that we had made on this blog in a series of posts about the rules of analytic method in the social sciences. And once posted these, we organized, by editing and enhancing the text. […]

Among the innumerable assumptions of the discourse on the sociological vulgar (which immediately made me think that I should write a text about it) is the idea that qualitative techniques do not allow to generalize. That said for those who dedicate themselves to the quantitative sounds to attack (‘they saw, what qualitative is limited because […]