Take a look at the following argument: The traditional measuring measured variables (say, distance). In the social sciences, there are very few things that can be measured that way. So if we want to investigate, and not simply to stay for detainees, then we have to use another mode of measurement. Here the idea is […]
Of the (no) importance of epistemology
Among the innumerable characteristics of the social sciences which in reality is not much sense to have this our inveterate habit of applying a theoretical discussion elements epistemological: This theory does not serve (or the other way around, is more better) because you do not agree to (or complies) with such basic characteristics of the […]
A couple of mistakes theory: Progress, determinism and contingency.
Reading a comment about the importance of the war and the conflict in the book of Joas and Knöbl, Social Theory: Twenty Lectures, arose in my poor little head a few ideas. The first is that definitely if we’re going to use the word progress it is necessary to remove all residual of moral character. […]
An argument archaeological against the idea that modernity is related to culture
A vision relatively common on modernity and that we have already criticized several times here, is the idea that modernity is -preferably – a cultural project. Wagner has been one of the most important proponents of this idea, and here in Chile is basically the vision that Morandé has of modernity (and therefore of because […]
Social Formations, military structure and ideology. A comparison in the Ancient Middle East
Although looked at from a distance might seem to be always the same, a mere succession of dynasty after dynasty; if it is observed with more detention it is possible to observe important changes in the history of the Ancient Middle East. One can compare two periods -not so distant from one another, at least […]
you can’t rely on the journalists: how The Chilean GDP doubled in 6 years?
military Competition and bureaucratization of the State
An argument that I’ve read several times in the past few years is the relationship between the military effort of a state and its bureaucratization. In particular, the case of ancient China is an example of it: it Is a state which early develops a strong bureaucracy because of the demands of military competition -in […]
What the right doesn’t understand the Chile current
In the Third of yesterday Sunday, April 8, Axel Buchheiser argues that, in relation to the crisis of Aysén, but in general the situation in the country, one might well think, one of the central themes is: ‘Is that has been left to spread the culture, which is foreign to the ideas of the centre-right, […]
A note on the concept of modernity
(It prevents the reader that this is rather long) Modernity is always one of the concepts of critical sociology. You can argue that the birth of the discipline is concerned with trying to explain the social changes that we have come to call modernity, and that sociology as a discipline is the social science that […]
Moral individual and moral social, virtue ethics and ethics of consent
The nice thing about making distinctions that one does as it wants. It is possible to distinguish between two types of moral: on the one hand, we can establish the moral individual, where what is essential to establish what is good or bad, commendable or reprehensible aspect of an action has to do with internal […]