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In this paper two things are fundamentally supported: 1) Starting out from the political thought of Cerdeiras we can talk about politics as event, whereupon politics is conceptualized as a disruptive practice that is produced outside of social conditioning and can provoke a rupture and introduce a radical novelty that is not possible to be thought of as a logical consequence of the rules given within a situation; and 2) this conception of politics as event entails an ontological perspective that emphasizes in contingency as an ontological condition in which social is instituted. The objective is to establish in theoretical terms an intrinsic relationship between the political event and the ontological status of contingency in social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay starts from the premise that sociological analysis has made important and valuable contributions to the conceptualization of the cultural, moral, and institutional aspects of communication. At present, however, the contributions of the sociology seem poorly represented within the field of communicative studies because these commonly overlook the fact that digital communication is inextricably linked to the social and material spaces which humans act and interact. Considering that it can generate a necessarily limited understanding of the communicative phenomenon, the objective of this work is to explore the approaches proposed by five schools of thought regarding the sociology of communication. Firstly, this paper reviews the main works produced by the Chicago School, the Columbia School, the Frankfurt School, the Toronto School and the Birmingham School to try to elucidate the conceptual bases of their postulates and to understand the criticisms they received from other scholars in the field. Subsequently, it describes the historical changes of the disciplinary research program and the approaches through which social researchers are trying to recognize and to understand the complex sociotechnical assemblages that characterize contemporary communication. Finally, it argues that the sociological perspective continues to be substantial in developing a critical comprehension of the social, political, and economic impact of digital mediatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a progress report on the coming of a dialogic and critical sociologist in Venezuelan sociology. It paper studies the case of the historical evolution of sociological formation at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and its link with the recent contemporary social theory in relation to the postmodernism and critical theories of Habermas, Wallerstein and postcolonialism thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a description of sociological research on the social imaginary that has been developed in the last twenty years, they present in the first moment aspects developed in Europe, principally from the French current and the sociology in Spain; later it is approached the link with Latin America, the Iberian American connection and some open routes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education has undergone many changes since the Sorbonne Declaration (1998) and its subsequent incorporation into the European Higher Education Space. One of the most significant changes has been to give students a protagonist role in the teaching-learning process. However, this role cannot be bestowed unless the student truly participates in the aforesaid process. The aim of this paper is to present the experience designed and implemented in the course, "Research and Socio-Educational Intervention", third semester for the undergraduate degree in Sociology (University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain). An assessment of participatory methodology applied to a specific subject for that degree was conducted, measuring the level of student satisfaction with it. The experience developed was innovative for this degree. What was intended was that students participate actively in the course through group work, performing activities, discussions and reflections, etc. Results of the experiment have been optimal due to student involvement and satisfaction regarding the methodology developed and the results obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the configuration of the sociological realm around the dispute on the pertinence of classical disciplinary canon. The debate is followed through the theses of four relevant sociologists: Jeffrey Alexander, Immanuel Wallerstein, Niklas Luhmann, and R. W. Connell. Based on these authors we present some aspects of this subject, and finish by outlining links between the classical canonization process and the construction of a disciplinary field of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to organize my thoughts on the question of the production of knowledge in a society In the intermediate stage of social and economic development. These thoughts are based on the academic experience of the author on both the national and international level over almost fifty years. Some remarks are made as to the problems of those who write about sociology in Spanish. and not in the contemporary lingua franca, English. A theoretical approach is proposed to explain the relationship between knowledge and power, and is referred to as the mirror theory. Finally, some reflections are made as to the role of Ideology in sociological thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 20th Century strong transformations were produced in the field of science. The biological sciences opened up epistemologically in order to offer new explanatory models which superceded the physical, anti-historical and formalistic models. The innovations involved in the evolutionary theory of Darwinism established a new scientific practice, the potentiality of which goes far beyond traditional disciplinary limits. The thesis of Darwin included explanatory models to explain contingent phenomenon, and were applicable to other problems and questionings, widening in this manner the field of possibilitites in scientific explanation. This paper proposes an extension of this analysis to the field of sociology, which, since its birth, has been studied as part of the organicist metaphor, as is testified to in the works of many authors considered as classic theorists (Comte, Spencer, Durkheim). The attention herein centers on the influence of the biologist conception as found in Emile Durkheim, considering as well the ontological and methodological suppositions underlying the normative framework of his work, and taking into account the criteria offered by P. Kitcher in his conceptualization of "scientific practice" as a unit of analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]