Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Category: Sociological theories

  • Organic system: between quantum physics and sociology (In Spanish)

  • Sistemas orgánicos: entre la física cuántica y la sociología

    Me hago eco de esta reflexión sobre sistemas de Max Neef, economista chileno. Afirma que la física cuántica ya habla del carácter orgánico de todo sistema en tanto que no tiene partes sino participantes, las cuales no son separables. Lo hace en oposición a la concepción mecánica, donde, en efecto, si se distinguen las partes. Me parece…

  • Transcripts of “Qualitative data analysis” course introduction.

    [Qualitative data analysis course as part of Economic Analysis program at Faculty of Economics of Gdansk University of Technology] Good, so! This is qualitative data analysis class. My name is Xaquín Pérez-Sindín López. The first thing I want to do is invite you to call me Xaquín. In class, during office hours, whenever, this is…

  • Great video overview of Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic (and difference between Northern and Southern Europe.

  • Rational choice and spatial based solidarity problems

    “Strategies that are rational at the level of the individual can lead to unintended consequences or suboptimal outcomes at group or society level, thereby creating solidarity and inequality problems” Source @socioloxia This is The general definition of #marketfailure . Fascinating topic — Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics (@UrbanDemog) January 21, 2016   @UrbDemogrphics…

  • Sociedad del riesgo segun Giddens

    Vivimos en sociedades complejas en las que las cadenas de decisiones, interacciones, causas y efectos son tan numerosas que siempre habrá consecuencias imprevistas de nuestros actos. Los graves accidentes tecnológicos como los de Chernobyl o la explosión del Challenger están ahí para recordárnoslo. El mayor problema de nuestras sociedades consiste en aprender a manejar los…

  • Historicism = our thoughts are “socially located”

    Historicism especially as expressed in the work of Wilhelm Dilthey, immediately preceded the sociology of knowledge. The dominant theme here was an overwhelming sense of the relativity of all perspectives on human events, that is, of the inevitable historicity of human thought. The historicist insistence that no historical situation could be understood except in its…

  • The importance of marxist “sub/superstructure” scheme within sociology of knowledge

    The sociology of knowledge has been particularly fascinated by Marx´s twin concepts of “substructure/superstructure” (Unterbau/Ueberbau). It is here particularly that controversy has raged about the correct interpretation of Marx´s own thought. Later Marxism has tended to identify the “substructure” with economic structure tout court, of which the “superstructure” was then supposed to be a direct…

  • The sociology of knowledge of Berger and Luckmann

    The sociology of knowledge must concern itself with whatever passes for “knowledge” in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by whatever criteria) of such “knowledge”. And in so far as all human “knowledge” is developed, transmitted and maintained in social situations, the sociology of knowledge must seek to understand the process by…

  • “Ideology” and “false consciousness”

    The sociology of knowledge in­herited from Marx not only the sharpest formulation of its central problem (that is “man´s consciousness is determined by his social being”) but also some of its key concepts, among which should be mentioned particularly the concepts of ‘ideology’ (ideas serving as weapons for social interests) and ‘false consciousness’ (thought that…