Month: August 2018

The argument that we have developed in these pages is based on the assumption that the social sciences are, can be, indeed, a science. To be more precise, the project of a description and a rational explanation of the social

To purpose of the recent hunger strike of the mapuche, in the list Chilesoc appeared some requirements to sign a statement of support about your situation. So far, all reasonable. Now, you asked for it to be a statement of

This of you begin to talk of other things makes one forget that this was initially a blog about sociology, and that there are issues half-written. As the diptych on modernity. In the first part, criticizing the idea that we

Some ideas thinking in the social order at the level of societal or whatever you call it to a set of relationships. I don’t think it’s possible the ‘disorder’ social at lower levels (that is, one will always find with

In reality, this is nothing more than a rehash. I had originally organized, edited and expanded several posts on the methodology that we had made on this blog in a series of posts about the rules of analytic method in

Among the innumerable assumptions of the discourse on the sociological vulgar (which immediately made me think that I should write a text about it) is the idea that qualitative techniques do not allow to generalize. That said for those who

Why Luhmann was transformed in Chile into one of the leading theorists? (it is a matter of reviewing programs, for example, the phd, in order to observe their influence). In the end, it is not true that is extremely influential

The formal arguments tend to be lateros, do not always move substantially things and, in general, are more difficult to make the arguments (and statements) to informal normally do in Sociology.But they have one great advantage, which I think is

And having, at the same time, made a presentation at the same congress, on Methodology (based but editing, the ideas expressed in the series on the rules of the sociological analysis), we will also do the same thing. That is,

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