Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: Sociology

  • Daniel Bell and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

    Capitalism is often understood as an economic system based on markets, private property, competition, productivity, and growth. However, for the sociologist Daniel Bell, capitalism was not only an economic structure. It was also a cultural system, and this cultural dimension created one of its deepest contradictions. In his influential book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,…

  • Economía vs capitalismo, o sobre qué significa “bien común”

    “Aristóteles distinguia dos formas de entender y practicar la economía. Economía, desde la antigua Grecia, es el conjunto de reglas morales con las que gestionamos la casa. Entonces si la ciencia económica se considera a si misma neutral… ni siquiera se acuerda del significado original de la palabra economía, que es el conjunto de reglas…

  • Subfields of Sociology. A quantitative analysis

    These are, judging by the XVIII ISA World Congress statistics, the top 20 subfields of sociology:  

  • Urban symbolic violence

    “Street harassment”. I like the term used in this article. It also includes the above video on gender harassment in the street. They did a kind of social experiment with a hidden camera to show how many times in a day a woman can get harassed. The video makes me think on street harassment in a…

  • Sociology of Development Journal

    I find this journal very interesting to publish some of my work. Coming March 2015! Sociology of Development is an international journal addressing issues of development, broadly considered. With basic as well as policy-oriented research, topics explored include economic development and well-being, gender, health, inequality, poverty, environment and sustainability, political economy, conflict, social movements, and…

  • Mass-observation project

    Mass-Observation was a United Kingdom social research organisation founded in 1937. Their work ended in the mid-1960s but was revived in 1981. The Archive is housed at the University of Sussex. Mass-Observation aimed to record everyday life in Britain through a panel of untrained volunteer observers who either maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires…

  • Visual Dialogues in Postindustrial Societies: Transforming the Gaze

        Who could attend this conferences! I find it very interesting for several reasons. First of all, because of my growing interest on social photography and visual sociology. Secondly, due to the theme of the conference, i.e. post-industrial societies, since it is connected with my dissertation on a post mining region. Bellow you can see…

  • The Fraga Family: example of visual data and ethnography based research project

      ABOUT THE PROJECT When I got to New York, I briefly documented the lives of many Galician families there. At the same the time I was looking for a project to document more widely during the year. I photographed life in the Bronx, street parties, the subway, and it was not until I visited…

  • Ethnomethodology: how people make sense of their life

    Introduced by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel, ethnomethodology is, together with symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical, one of the most relevant perspective in the field of qualitative research. This tradition concerned with studying routines of everyday life and their production. How people make sense of their lives? The order and harmony of our lives depends on…