Having performed in the previous entry for a description of some of the main ideas of Enrique Dussel Ethics of Liberation, in this entry we will focus on some comments on the text. The first is laudatory, the second most critical. As to found an ethics material, content, without falling into the naturalistic fallacy The […]
The sociality of humans is plural and its implications
On other occasions we have written about the issue of plurality (see recently entries A sociality plural and The plural construct and open in the social world), but it is not back on the subject. Because, I think, it is necessary to insist on that condition baseline of the sociality of human beings -which is […]
The difficulty of the political polls in the year 2017
The surveys are in a situation that is worthy of note: we Know that in recent years have encountered great difficulty in giving account of reality (Brexit, the plebiscite colombian, I do not have the choice of EE.UU, because in that case the national yes were close to the distribution of the vote). And, at […]
The Cunning of reason capitalist. A note on some aspects of feminism
A no small part of feminism contemporary presents itself as a critique of capitalism (to defeat the patriarchy is part of the same movement that leads to defeat capitalism). The argument of this input will defend that a no small part of arguments well spacious the interior of feminism are not only perfectly compatible with […]
An article. Theory of Sociality as Interaction
There will be more, I guess, to communicate in this blog the fact that the journal Tape of Moebio, dedicated to the issues of epistemology in the Social Sciences, published an article of my authorship. The title is something tinning, but you are going to do: Theory of sociality as interaction: towards a social analysis […]
the characteristics of the good sociologist
A good sociologist should be, at the same time, someone who moved with the same ease in the field of mathematics -you know, for example, of truth, reasoning with probabilities, statistical distributions-in relation to the meanings that you may understand the distinctions and intentions of the various such – and in regard to the theory […]
Things, people, and the animality of human
Usually in sociology, and this is true for other social sciences and to the humanities, what is more usual is to think of human beings as des-biologizados: the fact that they are beings cultural makes that there is no such thing as biological determinism or anything like that. I have criticized this position on other […]
why are you still using the political polls?
The title question can only deserve a quick response and obvious: Because you need some information, and that kind of information only you can deliver the surveys. Which is valid, but still leaves open the question of the uses. In other words, how much confidence can we have in their results? And given this, what […]
the Management of the ‘Model’
The idea that the governments of the Concertación (1990-2010) were administered to the model of the dictatorship generated, among those who defended and defend these governments, a great burning; a form of denigration of the achievements of these governments. However, it appears a more succinct form of referring to what did these governments -compared with […]
The Rationality of Rational Action
That is the title, perhaps you should think how to improve the titles I write?, a paper that I presented yesterday at the Colloquium on Economic Sociology. To describe it, nothing better than their summary: The theory of rational action has the paradoxical condition of being at the same time dominant and strongly criticized. On […]