One of the trends of a society commercialized, and now globalized, it is supposed, is the replacement of small shops by the big retail: stores give way to supermarkets. So, for example, Ruiz and Boccardo in The Chilean under Neoliberalism (2014) remind us: ‘abrupt decrease in the weight of the retailers within this category responds […]
A brief relation of the Sociology Analytics
It approaches sociological typically, at the end, divided between versions of theories of action and structure, rather than try to overcome (in various ways this distinction). Now, within the various forms that becomes the concern for the action an aspect that has gained strength in recent years, which has intrinsic interest and also their movements […]
Agamben on Auschwitz. The terror of the extinction of the human.
Some of the most significant moments in a text is when the chain of argumentation you experience a breakup, it does not reach where one could expect that heads. It is there where he reveals a text. The breakdown of the argument: we cannot accept as possible. By reading the magnificent text by Giorgio Agamben […]
thinking post-colonial and the traps of dualism
The thesis which we will defend in this entry is simple: In part, the thinking the post-colonial is trapped in the same dualities that criticism, and it does not give account or of the western tradition, criticized, or of the other traditions whose subjugation and invisibility criticizes. One of the themes of this aspect is […]
The plural construct and open the world of social
The difficulties of the notion of the People in Arendt
Although the entire history of the revolutions of the past proves without a doubt that all the attempts made to solve the social question with political means leads to terror (On Revolution, Ch 2, 6: 177) This text was published in 1963 and written between 1959 and 1962. In other words, in the midst of […]
own-account workers beyond the vulnerability and the venture
The Social Sciences tend to analyze own-account workers from a scheme of dual observation: On a pole they can be vulnerable workers, that obligation, they are in a situation lower. At the other pole they can be entrepreneurs, that by choice you are in a situation with great opportunities. The literature you choose between classify […]
Passeron and the reasoning historical Social Sciences
The Sociological Reasoning of Jean-Claude Passeron is also another defense of the necessity of thinking about social analysis as a historical analysis. Written in part as a polemic with the Popper of the Poverty of Historicism, poses as one of its fundamental tenets the absence of a science nomotética, and that it is necessary to […]
the Name of the Rose as a novel of modernity
The rejection of the employee. Historical differences in own-account work in Chile
In our picture of the historical development of Chile, the central actors are not own-account workers. You can, however, be noted that not only do they have a relevant presence in the course of the history of our country, but have been relevant in shaping the identity of various historical subjects in Chile. In fact, […]