The concept of the naturalization of social life is central in the thinking of Norbert Lechner -that is one of the few theorists that have been produced in our midst, and they have also been central in the Human Development Reports in Chile, which, in some form, may be regarded as the implementation of a […]
Voluntary Voting, and the Evolution of Electoral Results
1. Introduction One of the possible consequences that have been discussed about the fact of having choice with voluntary voting is the bias socio-economic: That communities with lower socio-economic level had more abstention (for example, see the following article for Contreras and Morales). Which in turn was denied by others or relativized by others, and […]
the relevance of The Dialectic of the Enlightenment
Critical theory classic, and this is one of his fundamental texts, has known better times. Those who have the temperament of a critic will probably not look drawn by a vision that remains very critical of the modern project is not only critical of the latter; and further, makes the criticism from that same project. […]
The Construction of the Social Processes Elementary
The thesis progresses. And then, and as a way in addition to publish something on this site, we present the version 0.1? one of the three parties that currently have the thesis (in fact the one in the middle). Missing a lot of things -editions, complete with arguments, comments, add most of the literature, but […]
weakness of the reason. The Critique of Practical Reason of Kant
One of the characteristics that jumps to the eye when one reads the Critique of Practical Reason is the insistence of Kant that pure reason is to establish a practical rule of conduct, without any relationship with considerations merely empirical. It’s a refrain constant in the text. Now, that is strange yes it is considered […]
The limits of instrumental reason. Closing and opening the other.
As has been said in various places, and in this same site, the instrumental reason presents a number of limitations in both reason -that is, from the criterion of internal. In this entry we will discuss one of them. From the point of view of a rational actor instrumental -according to the guidelines of rational […]
The Difficulty of Reproduction. Notes on the Notion of Habitus in Bourdieu
Despite all the efforts of Bourdieu by moving away from both the objectivism, as the subjectivism is relatively common to hear criticism that placed him in a position objectivist. For example: Thus Bourdieu’s efforts to ‘trascend’ the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism in the end it seems to boil down to little more than lip […]
30 years of the publication of The Contentious and Never-Finished Construction of the Desired Order
In 1984, he published through FLACSO , The Conflicting and never-finished Construction of the Desired Order of Norbert Lechner that, at this stage, it would qualify as one of the few works of ‘classical’ sociology in Chile. To be fulfilled then this year, 30 years after its publication, it might be write a few reflections […]
Impressions of the 8th Congress of Sociology in La Serena
Having come newly to the Congress of Sociology will be interesting to declare some of the impressions of what I could see of the Congress. By the way, only commented on the papers which to me were interesting –there are several which, being good in themselves, not to me they called me the attention. Wednesday, […]
Modes of Colonization. Some Notes Are Preliminary.
The entrance is not on all the possible ways of colonization, but simply to compare it in very general terms the ways used by Europeans in the early modern (in particular in America, but not exclusively so) A form (mode 1) is the ‘ban residents and we do with the land’, the so-called colony settlement. […]