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Analyzing data is, who are you going to do, one of the most enjoyable things in the world in my humble opinion. And when he had, then, begun to do so-pleasurable task with the data of my thesis, will not be more -even if very preliminary – show some early results. Data and Methodology. The […]

One of the positive consequences that there are several surveys is the possibility to compare their results. And as the topic of education has taken a good part of the public agenda in recent months, something of use will be in the exercise of comparing results around these questions. A few months ago, the CEP […]

Decades ago, Göran Therborn wrote a magnificent book, Science, Class and Society (original 1976) on the relationship between the disciplines of the social sciences, and showed that the sociology -since its inception – you could analyze as the study of the community rules. Or at least, that this was an object that had been appropriate […]

Having written some entries about my experience in the 8° Congress of Sociology, I suppose that it is reasonable to also write something (and post them) on the presentations that I gave during the Congress. One of them dealt with the quantitative research (and which in fact synthesizes ideas outlined in previous entries). The central […]

For a good time the surveys CADEM Public Square have been transformed into part of the agenda of the media (the media are published and used). A tracking weekly public opinion has its utility well you can think of. Now, in the methodology section -that is to recognize CADEM puts at the start of their […]

In the last few weeks, for the purpose of increasing the numbers of ‘those who do not want to work’ has given rise to any controversy, which has been party to doubt the data of the INE. As the theme, finally, concerns itself with the figure of unemployment (as it could be low when the […]

Given that there were large demands for change, some thought that the issue was easy: to Offer things that are raised as a major reform, and with this we account of the political crisis in Chile. A short walk, it was demonstrated that in reality it was not easy: That between those who wanted more […]

The relationship between the particular and the universal (in traditional terms), or at least what is here and now and what goes beyond the here and now takes various forms. And while it may seem like a concern, something that is far from the interests of empirical research, it happens that the ways in which […]

Towards the end of The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt discusses the vicissitudes of the various forms of the active life and poses the triumph through the modernity of the animal laborans (worker) whose activity is related to the physical reproduction and material of the species, of the necessities of life. This was coupled with the […]

What originally was a set of entries, then a presentation at the Congress was transformed in an article published in the journal Frontiers of the UFRO. The link is here. (In addition to adds to the section of writings as applicable). And let’s drop the abstract here: The social research is always a social process. […]