The Sociological Reasoning of Jean-Claude Passeron is also another defense of the necessity of thinking about social analysis as a historical analysis. Written in part as a polemic with the Popper of the Poverty of Historicism, poses as one of its fundamental tenets the absence of a science nomotética, and that it is necessary to […]
the Name of the Rose as a novel of modernity
The rejection of the employee. Historical differences in own-account work in Chile
In our picture of the historical development of Chile, the central actors are not own-account workers. You can, however, be noted that not only do they have a relevant presence in the course of the history of our country, but have been relevant in shaping the identity of various historical subjects in Chile. In fact, […]
The futility of the theory. A note on Nozick
In the discussions of ideological a claim shared in the debate is that you can derive from first principles the positions on the specific issues that we have to solve. To illustrate and criticize this idea, in this entry we will focus on the work of Nozick, in Anarchy, State and Utopia, in the distant […]
A brief argument about the incompleteness of liberalism
1. Liberalism can be understood as a social doctrine: The prohibition of forcing another person to perform an action. 1.1 Note that we are defining liberalism from the perspective of the other. If you can raise that is equivalent formally to the egocentric perspective (‘no one I can bind anything’), it is more interesting for […]
Variations of Hell. Dante, Levi and Auschwitz
the good, The bad and Tironi
A couple of recent columns by Eugenio Tironi, the first titled Good and the second Bad, have generated some controversy. Or at least have made it in the list Chilesoc, to which such columns was taken out of his lethargy usual. On several occasions in this blog I have made several criticisms of the writings […]
The place of autonomy in the world of work.
Behind the self-employment we find ourselves, so to speak, with the possibilities and limitations of autonomy as a space in the world of contemporary labour in Chile (but not only in our country). Three reflections are necessary to understand that space: The first is that autonomy, which is crucial for its own account, is not […]
The irritation that produced Hegel. A few notes in the middle of reading The Science of Logic
One of the common reactions if one is engaged in reading Hegel is that of irritation. Between the critical famous is that of Schopenhauer (the Foundations of Morality: ‘pseudo-philosophy that cripples the mind, smothering all thought real’) and the Popper (referring to Fichte and Hegel in The Open Society: ‘such clowns are taken seriously’). The […]
On the misuses of significance tests
To ask whether a difference is statistically significant is one of the most common and recurring of the analysis in many fields, and in particular in sociology. Let us think in the discussions on whether the differences between the results of the surveys are significant. Now, for several years have developed various criticisms of the […]