UNED | Madrid
Here in Dirty Harry, Inspector Harry Callahan meets his new partner Chico Gonzalez https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=dirty+harry+sociology&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fccfa8dd,vid:RitnM9n0jTY,st:0 “Sociology? You will go far if you live” In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Captain Ray Holt speaks with Sergeant … Read more
The heading picture of this entry, “Il merito e’ un ricatto!” (“Merit is a blackmai!l”), is a writing on a wall in a street close to the University area in … Read more
The heading picture of this entry is from an old school Atlas that I have bought at the Rastro Flea Market on Madrid. I will come back to this picture at … Read more
I am reading the novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and I am also reading about luck for my research. One form of moral luck (note: moral luck concerns … Read more
I re-read Too Loud a Solitude (TLS) after 35 years since I first read it. 35 years. That number is a thought-provoking coincidence. “For thirty-five years now I have been … Read more
I have been at a talk by Antonio Scurati, presenting the third volume of this M trilogy (the picture above refers to the Italian edition) on Mussolini and Italian fascism … Read more
A cycle of three conferences about the Millennials generation at the Foundation la Caixa in December 2021 (in Spanish). Here is the first one (be aware duration > 1 hour)
In a paper recently published on European Sociological Review together with Marco Cozzani and Moris Triventi we analyse how prenatal stress affects prematurity and low birth weight and how this … Read more
In her influential 2003 book, Unequal childhood, the sociologist Annette Lareau uses a gardening metaphor and distinguishes two types of parenting styles, “concerted cultivation” and “accomplishment of natural growth”. Concerted … Read more