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• At the edge of the abyss. Horror and modernity in Santa Maria of Iquique

  O. Rodríguez

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The purpose of this article is to analyze some subjective issues for understanding why the killing of workers in the School Domingo Santa María de Iquique, is one of the milestones that inaugurates a new era on the nature of pain and horror in contemporary Chile. Owners of an Enlightenment vision about life, present and future, the cognitive distance that Chilean workers woven in relation to the death in the early twentieth century didn’t allow them to anticipate the complex and contradictory social universe that the modernization involved. Characterized by violent death, severe pain and moral injustice, the slaughter perpetrated in 1907 turned this educational institution in historic cleaving to the advent of contemporary political massacres and in a symbol of the contradictions that constitute modernity and modernization processes in the twentieth century.

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  The purpose of this article is to analyze some subjective issues for understanding why the killing of workers in the School Domingo Santa María de Iquique, is one of the [...]

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• Poetic of memory at Chilean theather: Scenic practice from 1973 to 1990

  J. Álvarez

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The present article tries to point out the search and creation of Memory Theater in Chile through a scenic journey between 1973 and 1990. The reading of such a process is assumed in the light of theatrical discourse of resistance, the political and poetic conception of memory as praxis historicity of the present. key to puttings in scene the construction of contemporary Chilean theater in the context of the Pinochet regime.

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  The present article tries to point out the search and creation of Memory Theater in Chile through a scenic journey between 1973 and 1990. The reading of such a process is [...]

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• Entrevista a Steve Fuller

  A. Murguía, M. Orozco

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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• Social Epistemology and deliberative democracy

  A. Lores

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  Contemporary societies face tensions related with the unequal distribution of knowledge and simultaneous demands for democratic equality that are central to Social Epistemology´s inquiry. This article describes how the defenders of deliberative democracy explain their characteristics and epistemological virtues, the objections placed by their critics related to public igno- rance, and describes issues related to deliberative inequalities and epistemic injustices. It finally proposes that tackling democracy´s epistemic obstacles does not entail that all citizens should have equal influence in deliberations and decisions.

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  Contemporary societies face tensions related with the unequal distribution of knowledge and simultaneous demands for democratic equality that are central to Social Epistemology´s [...]

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• Presentación

  A. Lores

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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• Civilizational crisis, social movements and prefigurations of a non-capitalist modernity

  M. Millán

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This essay poses the question of the spaces in which the social subject in the capitalist modernity can recover its self-determination capacity, spaces of widening of the political field –and of redefinition of politics– which have been closed, expropriated or not yet experimented, but potential within modernity. The hypothesis of this work is that in the contemporary era, social movements are the places of the prefiguration of “another politic”. Their intervention through practical and discursive action, impact the terrain of social imaginaries, questioning founding certainties of the civilizing order in force. They, in so far as movement, experience uncalculated transformation beforehand, where the voids of the existing modernity are most clearly revealed. We are inspired on the critique of modern culture and the distinction between politics and the political made by Bolívar Echeverría.

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  This essay poses the question of the spaces in which the social subject in the capitalist modernity can recover its self-determination capacity, spaces of widening of the [...]

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• The desire of meseaure everything. Critique of calculating reason from Leopoldo Marechals thought

  M. Martín

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  During the years 1955-1965 the Argentinian writer Leopoldo Marechal wrote several works that showed a deep concern for the contemporary technique and science. Marechal thought that science and technique of Modern Age are the product of one particular rationality, known as “calculating reason”. This paper aims to analyze main characters of Marechals critique to this kind of rationality.

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  During the years 1955-1965 the Argentinian writer Leopoldo Marechal wrote several works that showed a deep concern for the contemporary technique and science. Marechal thought [...]

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• The “cursed” legacy of Auguste Comte: the reflexive “self–foundation” of sociology

  A. Bialakowsky, F. Ruiz

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This article proposes to recover an aspect of the work of Auguste Comte that we consider has not been given enough importance. Based on the principles of his sociology of knowledge, we will reconstruct what still is a recurrent issue in contemporary sociological theory, of which Comte appears as its first exponent: the auto– justification of sociology belonging to the “canon” of scientific knowledge through strictly sociological arguments. Following some Comtes postulations in the first lessons of the Course on Positive Philosophy and in the ones dedicated to “Social Physics”, we will emphasize on the strictly sociological character, and therefore circular, of the reasons that he turns to legitimize a science of society. This circularity, in the case of Comte, becomes even clearer as he argues that sociology will allow the consecration of the positive state through the development of an organic doctrine that reorganizes society, based, precisely, in the sociological auto– comprehension of the social. Thus, a “cursed legacy” is formed, since these arguments reappear in any theory of weight as a persistent problem, but also as a need to strengthen the discipline legitimizing arguments.

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  This article proposes to recover an aspect of the work of Auguste Comte that we consider has not been given enough importance. Based on the principles of his sociology of [...]

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• The social structure of a university career: the case of Communication Sciences of the UNAM

  D. Manchinelly

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This article points out the main social positions of the social structure of the Commu- nication Sciences’ community college, part of the Faculty of Social and Politica Sciences (FCPyS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Our purpose is to make observable social divisions that highlight students within their particu- lar social context. This is accomplished by analyzing the statistics of the UNAM and some groups and individual narratives. The article concludes that there are three social positions: 1) the aspirational position, 2) the defensive position and 3) the reactive position.

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  This article points out the main social positions of the social structure of the Commu- nication Sciences’ community college, part of the Faculty of Social and Politica [...]

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• Political subjectivities against capitalist plunder of natural resources in Mexico

  M. Navarro

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  Facing the critical and conflictive socio-environmental scenery in our country, we expose an analytical approach to social antagonism and the processes of political subjectivation of the socio-environmental struggles. We seek to analyze the modes in which impulses of political self-determination and social self-regulation are activated for the defense and management of the communal natural assets. We are talking about the emergence, strengthening and update of a communitarian politic which prefigures an alternative to the dominant order. We deal with a fundamental debate for the human survival in view of the crisis of civilization faced by the living world.

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  Facing the critical and conflictive socio-environmental scenery in our country, we expose an analytical approach to social antagonism and the processes of political subjectivation [...]

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