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Having written some entries about my experience in the 8° Congress of Sociology, I suppose that it is reasonable to also write something (and post them) on the presentations that I gave during the Congress. One of them dealt with the quantitative research (and which in fact synthesizes ideas outlined in previous entries). The central […]

For a good time the surveys CADEM Public Square have been transformed into part of the agenda of the media (the media are published and used). A tracking weekly public opinion has its utility well you can think of. Now, in the methodology section -that is to recognize CADEM puts at the start of their […]

In the last few weeks, for the purpose of increasing the numbers of ‘those who do not want to work’ has given rise to any controversy, which has been party to doubt the data of the INE. As the theme, finally, concerns itself with the figure of unemployment (as it could be low when the […]

Given that there were large demands for change, some thought that the issue was easy: to Offer things that are raised as a major reform, and with this we account of the political crisis in Chile. A short walk, it was demonstrated that in reality it was not easy: That between those who wanted more […]

The relationship between the particular and the universal (in traditional terms), or at least what is here and now and what goes beyond the here and now takes various forms. And while it may seem like a concern, something that is far from the interests of empirical research, it happens that the ways in which […]

Towards the end of The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt discusses the vicissitudes of the various forms of the active life and poses the triumph through the modernity of the animal laborans (worker) whose activity is related to the physical reproduction and material of the species, of the necessities of life. This was coupled with the […]

What originally was a set of entries, then a presentation at the Congress was transformed in an article published in the journal Frontiers of the UFRO. The link is here. (In addition to adds to the section of writings as applicable). And let’s drop the abstract here: The social research is always a social process. […]

The title of the paper attached to this entry is something more complex than that of this entry: Structure-in-Actor, Structure-and-Actor and Theories Relational. 3 Moments of Social Theory in the last decades. The summary will explain a little more that it is: In the diaspora theoretical after the fall of functionalism were observed attempts of […]

Among all the discussions that were held around the Structure of Scientific Revolutions Kuhn says relationship with the idea of paradigm. Rapturosamente received in Social Sciences or strongly criticized as an idea that showed a lack of ‘objectivity’ of the so-called hard sciences, and as validating the relativism , for Kuhn this reception was extremely […]

What would be one of the theoretical chapters of the phd thesis in this link. The abstract of the text: This paper defends the following three claims, which raises can help to generate theoretical results of interest in social science. The first is a naturalistic worldview of the social life: having, as a whole, its […]