The economist Angus Maddison published the year 2007, a book Contours of the World Economy, culminating a task absolutely senseless to Attempt to measure the GDP per capita of various countries from the year 1 of our era. A mammoth task (in terms of data collection and analysis to make them comparable) that would produce […]
A periodization of the evolution of the concentration of land in Chile 1540s-2010s
Following a reflection of a couple of years ago, in the context of my old job at the UNDP, I made a first version of a historical examination of the construction of the territory in Chile, under the point of view of the evolution of the concentration -which gives, besides, a perspective that may be […]
Annotations on The Rules of Durkheim (I). The Definition of Social Fact
We begin here a short series of entries about one of the classic works of sociology: The Rules of Durkheim. In recent times the fortunes of Durkheim, and of the vision methodology that the Rules they embody, has experienced strong poundings. To the criticisms of traditional conservatism, and to a vision that would deny the […]
feminism and the discourse on morality in the left
To purpose of the recent Wave feminist, and the discourse on the male left, and after talking with several people, I came to the following hypothesis: The traditional discourse of the left on morality is a discourse of transgression. Face the moral conservative and traditionalist, what was seen was appropriate to denigrate and break the […]
Touraine over the movement of women. Reading notes
Nous n allons pas enter dans une société des femmes, nous and sommes déjà. Le plus remarquable dans cette conversion nécessaire des hommes est qu ils sont amenés à rompre avec leur habitude de penser couple couples d’opposition, pour adopter la manière de penser des femmes par combinaison de termes apparemment opposés -ce qui conduit […]
Three Investigations on the relevance of intellectual Sociology
To all this I just realized that I had not uploaded the doctoral thesis work of so many years, finally, to this poor site. Matter that we will resolve immediately then. Here is the link to the official repository of the University of Chile. And here’s the summary: In the present thesis presents the results […]
An observation about the transformations in the intellectual debate in Chile (1990s-2010s)
About 20 years ago he published two texts that marked the public debate in Chile at the time: The Anatomy of a Myth of Moulian and the Human Development Report of 1998. These texts, and the answers they produced, operated on the same level: The debate about the diagnosis of society. Debate. in turn, reduced […]
Universalism and particularism in classical Chinese philosophy.
Read a couple of books does not make one an expert on anything, but somewhere there is that from. And the debate in chinese philosophy between the mozistas and the confucianists (in particular Mencius) purpose of the universal and the particular in moral can shed light on contemporary discussion. In the end, does not cease […]
Annotations on The Rules of Durkheim (II). Consider social facts as things
Chapter 2 of The Rules (the rules relating to the observation of social facts) begins with a famous phrase, and discussed: The first rule et la plus fondamentale est de we must consider les faits sociaux comme des choses (Cap 2. p 15) This phrase has been interpreted in multiple ways. In particular, is sometimes […]