The thesis progresses. And then, and as a way in addition to publish something on this site, we present the version 0.1? one of the three parties that currently have the thesis (in fact the one in the middle). Missing a lot of things -editions, complete with arguments, comments, add most of the literature, but […]
weakness of the reason. The Critique of Practical Reason of Kant
One of the characteristics that jumps to the eye when one reads the Critique of Practical Reason is the insistence of Kant that pure reason is to establish a practical rule of conduct, without any relationship with considerations merely empirical. It’s a refrain constant in the text. Now, that is strange yes it is considered […]
The limits of instrumental reason. Closing and opening the other.
As has been said in various places, and in this same site, the instrumental reason presents a number of limitations in both reason -that is, from the criterion of internal. In this entry we will discuss one of them. From the point of view of a rational actor instrumental -according to the guidelines of rational […]
The Difficulty of Reproduction. Notes on the Notion of Habitus in Bourdieu
Despite all the efforts of Bourdieu by moving away from both the objectivism, as the subjectivism is relatively common to hear criticism that placed him in a position objectivist. For example: Thus Bourdieu’s efforts to ‘trascend’ the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism in the end it seems to boil down to little more than lip […]
30 years of the publication of The Contentious and Never-Finished Construction of the Desired Order
In 1984, he published through FLACSO , The Conflicting and never-finished Construction of the Desired Order of Norbert Lechner that, at this stage, it would qualify as one of the few works of ‘classical’ sociology in Chile. To be fulfilled then this year, 30 years after its publication, it might be write a few reflections […]
Impressions of the 8th Congress of Sociology in La Serena
Having come newly to the Congress of Sociology will be interesting to declare some of the impressions of what I could see of the Congress. By the way, only commented on the papers which to me were interesting –there are several which, being good in themselves, not to me they called me the attention. Wednesday, […]
Modes of Colonization. Some Notes Are Preliminary.
The entrance is not on all the possible ways of colonization, but simply to compare it in very general terms the ways used by Europeans in the early modern (in particular in America, but not exclusively so) A form (mode 1) is the ‘ban residents and we do with the land’, the so-called colony settlement. […]
Trajectories of Own-Account Workers, Chile, 1999-2008
Comparing Surveys. CEP (July 2014) and UDP (Sept-Oct 2014) in Education.
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 […]
The right as a theory applied social
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 […]