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The article is inserted in a discussion about the way in which sociology problematizes culture, specifically, the paper analyses the modus operandi for a critical approach to the culture. For this, it focuses on the Luc Boltanski’s proposal, because he makes the discussion on the “critical sociology” a central instance of his cultural study without abandoning the critical claim. With the goal of analysing these questions, the first section is dedicated to characterizing Boltanski's pragmatic sociology of critique. The second section argues that he proposes a powerful modus operandi for the sociological description of the actors’ normativity, but that it does not solve the problems that would allow the critical research of that normativity. Topic that is developed through the discussion of his research on the “spirit of capitalism”. Finally, the conclusions propose a path through which to advance towards this critical sociology, centred on the notions of ideology and utopia.

This article addresses a neglected problem in Searle’s social ontology, namely, how human civilization may collapse. In the first section, I provide the theoretical framework. In the second section, I offer the key elements to understanding Searle’s ontology as well as his philosophy of society, emphasizing the role of constitutive rules and deontic powers. In the third section I examine how they improve trust and co-operation. Global and local natural disasters are distinguished in the fourth section, because the former is sufficient to undermine pacts, promises, constitutive rules and deontic powers, while the latter is neither sufficient nor necessary. In the fifth and final section, I put forward an argument via a thought experiment that allows us to anticipate what would occur if people did not keep promises and pacts, on the one hand, and did not respect constitutive rules and deontic powers, on the other hand. Such events, I argue, would result in the collapse of civilization.

Desde ya hace un tiempo, la narrativa de los stakeholders se ha incorporado de forma decidida en un amplio elenco de organizaciones, contribuyendo al ideario de las principales empresas del mundo. Sin embargo, para un adecuado desarrollo de la misma no es suficiente incorporarla al propósito, es también necesario incorporar dicha perspectiva en los resultados. La transferencia de valor mediante mecanismos no monetarios o incluso emocionales, y la distribución de valor a múltiples stakeholders requiere un sistema más completo del que ofrece la contabilidad financiera. Un instrumento pensado principalmente para identificar el valor monetario residual, es decir, el beneficio; donde el valor distribuido a otros stakeholders, como por ejemplo los trabajadores y proveedores, aparece como un gasto con signo negativo; es decir, como una merma de valor. Para hacer frente a este problema y a la necesidad de una información más completa, tal y como está demandando la teoría de stakeholders, se necesita ampliar el actual sistema de información contable. En el presente artículo se propone una ampliación del concepto de valor, incorporando además de las transacciones basadas en precios, las transferencias realizadas en un entorno de no mercado (sin contraprestación de precio) y aquellas de carácter emocional; así mismo, se propone una ampliación desde una perspectiva unidimensional, centrada en los accionistas a una multidimensional que incorpore a la totalidad de los stakeholders de la organización. En el resto del artículo se reflexiona sobre las experiencias y las implicaciones de este modelo decontabilidad para los stakeholders que, sin duda, tiene un excelente encaje en la Economía Social.

¿Qué es lo que hace que una sociedad plural funcione armoniosamente, que la economía sea inclusiva y que la democracia no caiga en el caos político? En este artículo sostendré que ese pegamento es el contrato social. Cuando ese pegamento existe, progreso económico, social y político avanzan de la mano. Sucedió así en los llamados “Treinta Gloriosos”, las tres décadas que siguieron a la Gran Depresión de los Treinta y la Segunda Guerra mundial. Sin embargo, a partir de los años ochenta del siglo pasado ese pegamento se fue disolviendo y, en paralelo, el crecimiento económico dejó de ser sinónimo de progreso social y la democracia entró en barrena. El reto ahora es reconstruir ese pegamento, al modo como se logró tras las grandes guerras. En mi opinión, ese pegamento, en primer lugar, ha de venir de un nuevo contrato social postpandémico. En segundo lugar, el núcleo de ese nuevo contrato social está en la reforma de la empresa para corregir la mala distribución del excedente (valor añadido) entre salarios, sueldos de altos directivos y dividendos. Un nuevo contrato social progresista tiene que apoyarse en la recuperación del papel fundamental del tercer pilar de la prosperidad: la Economía social.

This paper aimed to map the current state of the structures of political science production and circulation in Argentina. This type of analysis is part of a series of studies that have analyzed the forms that peripheral science has adopted, its styles of production and publication circuits. We sought to answer a simple question that has complex answers: where does Argentina's political science publish and what characteristics do its researchers present - considering trajectories, strategies, and profiles - at CONICET? To this end, we analyzed the trajectories of 148 CONICET researchers in order to understand their publication practices and positioning in the Argentinean scientific field. At the same time, we examined the publication space of political science journals, their circuits and circulation orientations. Political Science in Argentina has a dynamic and consolidated structure. The historical trend that guided the trajectories of agents towards international spaces is contrasted with a recent trend of graduating from national universities and entering a scientific career at CONICET. Beyond the scientific policies of decentralization of science and technology activities, the concentration of research capacities in metropolitan areas is almost absolute. In the case of political science, the UBA-UNSAM-UNR node centralizes the largest number of researchers and, therefore, of political science production in the country.

This article exposes the role of interdisciplinarity in political science in Colombia, addressing the undergraduate degree in political science at the University of Antioquia as an illustrative reference on the subject. Firstly, the history of the discipline in Colombia is developed, deepening the discussions around hybridization and interdisciplinarity. It is concluded that the former is problematic in terms of autonomy and disciplinary identity, while the latter enables an opening to dialogue with the other social sciences and delimits disciplinary boundaries that allow for clarity about their field of specialization. On the other hand, the strengths and challenges of the consolidation of the discipline at the University of Antioquia are identified. The need to open and maintain disciplinary discussion spaces is emphasized, where minimum procedures can be defined for this interdisciplinary dialogue.

This paper studied the development of the field of State, administration, and public policy in Latin America from the processes of autonomization, institutionalization, professionalization and disciplinary specialization. The actors (individuals), institutions (teaching and research centers), the production of the area, and the constitution of thematic academic networks were analyzed. To do this we conducted interviews and collected data from journals, undergraduate and graduate courses in official databases, and pages of professional associations. We built a general panorama of this process in the region, and then pointed out the progress in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico based on these dimensions. Finally we made a general balance of the sub-area in Latin America, discussing the notion rooted in the literature on the relative backwardness of the field.

ReseñaTítulo: The Politics of Political Science: Re-Writing Latin American ExperiencesAutor: Paulo RaveccaAño de publicación: 2019Edición: PrimeraPáginas: 292ISBN: 978 0815363088Editorial: Routledge   La Política de la Ciencia Política de Paulo Ravecca ofrece un magnífico análisis sobre varios puntos fundamentales dentro de la institucionalización de la ciencia política y su epistemología. El libro de Ravecca es, en esencia, novedoso tanto en los temas que aborda como en su aproximación metodológica: un análisis comparado que triangula con investigación autoetnográfica, una forma poco convencional en la investigación social.

Vuelve y juega la violencia en Colombia y esta continuará mientras el Estado siga siendo precario.

This article of reflection problematizes the relationships between phenomenology and hermeneutics as epistemic places of research work through a documentary approach built in two phases. First, the text reflects on the terminological use present in the paradigms, approaches, epistemological perspectives, and research methods, thereby identifying that there is no criteria univocity in its references and approaches about research methodology treaties. Likewise, it is evident that there are methodological proposals that include phenomenology and hermeneutics in a complementary, articulated, or isolated way without allowing precise places of understanding that allow to locate their application in research. Based on the aforementioned, the second phase proposes an individual approach to the background and comprehensions of phenomenology and hermeneutics, identifying particularities that characterize them, possible theoretical-practical differences and approaches that can be established in view of their relevance from the epistemic and methodological framework of research in human and social sciences.