La presente investigación es un estudio socio-histórico cuyo propósito principal es comprender la configuración de pensamientos identitarios y acciones colectivas en territorios rurales de Bolivia y Chile; bajo la hipótesis que plantea que en medio de las transformaciones estructurales, se levant...
The present investigation is a historical-social study whose main purpose is to understand the configuration of identitary thoughts and collective actions in rural territories of Bolivia and Chile; under the hypothesis that sets out that in the midst of structural transformations, proposals are r...
This thesis drew on a methodological and analytical strategy bringing together Foucauldian (1980; 1984; 2001a; 2001b; 2007; 2008) onto-epistemological underpinnings and critical readings of the affective turn to explore the affirmative action policy in higher education in Chile. By critically dep...
La presente investigación estudia la cultura política de los máximos dirigentes empresariales chilenos de dos organizaciones patronales del país: la Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura y la Sociedad de Fomento Fabril.
En un contexto de ausencia de estudios sobre la cultura política del gran empresar...
This research focuses on the political culture of the foremost business leaders of two employer organizations in Chile: the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura and the Sociedad de Fomento Fabril.
In a context of an absence of studies on the political culture of the most prominent businesses in the ...
How does the massification of higher education shape the neoliberal state in Chile? Our research looks at the state effects of the mass intellectuality spawned by the recent expansion of the university system. The significance of this group hinges on the dissemination of orientations of public pr...
Pharmaceutical Entanglements aims at exploring the complex and local interactions between stimulant medication, children using it, and other human and non-human actors which are present inside the classrooms of two neo-Catholic high-income schools in Santiago, Chile. Although much has been writte...
This dissertation offers a qualitative meta-synthesis of the history of painting in colonial central Andes from the point of view of the theory of social systems put forward by Niklas Luhmann. Assuming this author's central insight regarding the observation of art as a social phenomenon – namely,...
In Latin America, the debate on what constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ job has been dominated by the phenomenon of informality. Indicators like the ‘informal sector size’ or the proportion of workers in ‘informal employment’ give little attention to the intrinsic features of jobs that affect workers’...
Esta tesis doctoral se centró en el contexto de las organizaciones deportivas voluntarias, específicamente en la figura del club deportivo, debido a la necesidad de profundizar en el conocimiento de estas organizaciones que desempeñan un rol relevante en el fomento del deporte y la actividad físi...
Industrialization and the conformation of modern societies established separate spheres for men’s and women’s roles, leaving men in hand of the public sphere of production, and women in charge of the domestic sphere through care and household tasks, thus replacing the family economy of preindustr...
Taking into account the relevance subjective well-being has acquired in international research and political agendas in the last decade, this dissertation explores people’s judgements and feelings as an essential part of our understanding of well-being in Chile. Subjective well-being is understoo...