Due to labour issues, in the last time I had to devote to the study of organizations. And one of the things that I have noticed is all the literature (and trade demand) for the pursuit of excellence and search -finally – behavior ‘star’ on the part of people who act in organizations. But what […]
the work Of the sociology
(And it is always something nice to see your own name printed. Today he came out -finally and after a couple of years – the book of methodology with my poor articulito on quantitative data analysis*) Well, the point of this brief post: The sociogía is not, it should not be, the discipline that discusses […]
costs of the war in the Europe of the early modern
Take, by way of example, the interesting study of Myron Gutman, concerning the economy of the Lower Maasland in early modern times. The author offers lots of seemingly convincing evidence that, from 1620 until 1749, the depredations of armies, large and small, did not cause the demographic or economic collapse of the area: both population […]
the rules of The method: The postulate of the sense of the actors
Perhaps it would be good to continue with this type the basic things that my good (or bad) understanding to make a good explanation from a sociological standpoint. We had said (in may) that a good tenet was the equality of actors. Now the idea is to develop another, which is well related: An explanation […]
Opacity and meaning in social life
Some of the affirmations -that we will leave now only as ideas, and this will save us the tedium of developing(*). 1) social life, The interactions, are composed of meanings. There is No such thing as the interaction is not significant. That is the basis of all the qualitative techniques: finding the meaning. 2) Now, […]
Another note about the consumerism in Chile
The thesis is simple: The perceptions of consumerism in Chile are based on a mismatch between the current realities of the country and expectations based on a very different reality. And this is based on a thesis even more simple: The Chile of the ’80s ( and before) as the country was downright poor. The […]
Sociology as a category of software
Now, a good part of these programs (click on the title of the post to see the link) are not of sociology (but related to social aspects -programs for genealogies or collaboration software). What is important and interesting is that it uses the name of our old discipline. Sociology appears in very strange places from […]
Some notes on absolutism and bureaucracy, and the Republic of the United Provinces
Those who supported the Grand Pensionary — known as Republicans — would eventually champion the notion of the estates’ absolutist sovereignty. The Stadhouder”s followers — called Orangists — adhered-to regimen mixtum theory. They admitted that sovereignty rested with the estates, but were of the opinion that Holland was a mixed polity, in which the Stadhouder […]
The pseudo-sociology, pseudo-complexity
sometimes I think that my training methodology was not as bad
Reading for labour issues a text called the “New Qualitative Research -is there a need?”, it was proposed that require major changes in the qualitative approaches, to overcome the problems of traditional approaches. For example: ‘Even worse, the process of market research, both quantitative and qualitative, forces respondents to create these reasons on the spot, […]