This next post it’s been really difficult for me, because I’m on the first year of the degree, so I don’t know all the challenges it is facing right now, so I’ll try to tell you the things I know. If I’m wrong, correct me please.
I don’t know anything about if the sociology in my university its studying technology. I only know that we work with SPSS (statistical program for social science) that is a computer program to make a statistical analysis for quantitative investigations. Maybe it is investigated in the work sociology, but I really don’t know.
The social matters are one of the most important things on our degree, because in our society, the capitalist society, the inequalities are really big in this time, so sociology tries to help to solution this problem, by studying the social structure and the social stratification. When I went to the ALAS Congress, I heard lot of people talking against capitalism and its inherent poverty, and about the exploitation and workers, industries occupation and revolution. I don’t know more of this thing; I only know that some teachers are working on it very hard (?) in my faculty.
About education I don’t know much, I only know that this is investigated on the education degree, because they also work on social research. In the faculty I’m in, they study the Chilean education system, they critic it and things like that. I don’t know much about this, I do not know about education sociology around the world.
I think that all the problems that sociology is facing can’t be solved by a social science discipline, even if they want to. I think that the only way to change these problems is to change the whole capitalist society. The sociology can help for it, only if it doesn’t helps the enterprises interests by doing all the things they want. It can help for the society change only by giving the acknowledgement about it to the social movements, so they can use it to get a more equal, fair and democratic society. This means, destroy the capitalism (I wish)
That’s all for today, see you all.
lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2009
The Lord of the Rings: The fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings has been one of the famous movies on the last few years. This movie it’s about a journey that’s started by a fellowship that wants to destroy Sauron’s Ring, because, if this ring arrives on Sauron’s hands, means that he can rule the Middle Earth. It starts on Hobbiton, on the Frodo’s house, because he is the one who carries the ring on whole journey, with four hobbits. They go with Strider (he’s real name it’s Aragorn, but on the first step of this movie he is called like that, he uses it as a nickname) after being on the Inn of the Prancing Pony. He helps the hobbits escape of the Nazgûls, because they were looking for the ring. Then, they reach to Rivendel, an elven town. There they got together with a few people: Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Boromir the human of Gondor. They decide to go with Frodo to destroy the ring. After this they go way to Moria, going through the mountains to get there. In Moria Gandalf loses a fight against a Balrog (this is something like a Dragon) and the fellowship decides to go forward without him. Then they went to Lothlorien, and after this they go by canoe on the river Anduin, and arrive on the Falls of Rauros. There they get attacked by the Uruk-hai, who kills Boromir, and separates the fellowship on three: Frodo and Sam, Pippin and Merry, and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, and there this movie ends.
I like this movie a lot; when I was younger I was a fan of it, because of his music (it is very sweet, with lots of European medieval details, and big orchestras music), his fantastic medieval characterization, and their characters, for example the elves, with their typical majesty. They really did a good job.
The director of this movie was Peter Jackson; he also did the other Lord of the rings movies, and he won lots of Oscars and movie Prizes.
I like this movie a lot; when I was younger I was a fan of it, because of his music (it is very sweet, with lots of European medieval details, and big orchestras music), his fantastic medieval characterization, and their characters, for example the elves, with their typical majesty. They really did a good job.
The director of this movie was Peter Jackson; he also did the other Lord of the rings movies, and he won lots of Oscars and movie Prizes.
Free time interests/activities/hobbies
Hello people!
Today I’m going to tell you about what things I like to do in my free time and stuff like that. I hope that you enjoy this post. If you get bored, don’t worry, this is not the more interesting thing in the world, so you can keep on doing your things.
I like to do lots of things in my free time, I don’t know why. First I like to rest from the university studies, taking naps or just sitting on a couch. Then I like to party with my friends, have a good time, drink some beers, and dance a little bit. Then I try to spent the other time with my family in Los Andes, because I don’t see them often, and try to read the books I like, for example now I’m reading a book from Carlos Pérez, and I want to finish another book from Guy Debord.
I like to do all these things because they make me feel relaxed, especially the books, and because I like to spent time with my friends and family.
I would like to have lots of time to read books, because I have some books at my home and I haven’t read them all, and they are very interesting (or at least they seem to be). And I would like to have more time to spend with my brother, to visit him to Viña del Mar or to go to party with my friends too.
The main thing that eats my time is the University: first, I dedicate a lot of time to the studies, to read the classes books, to do home works, to organize with the group I’m working with on a few signatures. Second, the political activities on the university take lots of time from me too, because I have to go to the assemblies, to meetings with my “political friends” and things like that. Then, I’m participating on a studies group, and we have meetings too, and we have to read books to then discuss them, so it takes time from me too. And the last thing, is the fact that sometimes when I’m out of classes we go to the grasses to talk about the life with my friends and drink some beers. I enjoy them all a lot.
I guess that’s all, hope you’re fine, see you!
Bye
lunes, 26 de octubre de 2009
My Beloved Faculty
The current situation in my faculty (Social Science Faculty) is really weird. We’re in elections right now, and all the people are sticking posters of their respective political groups, and the entire place is full of papers and stuff. The canteen it’s used as a study room, so you can lunch and study at the same time. The sociology degree- as the others of the faculty, I mean psychology, anthropology and education- have lots of problems with its program, because it is very flexible, and it changes all the years. And etcetera, I would continue lot of lines more writing about it.
The library needs lots of improvements, the internet system too, the teacher’s evaluation system, and so and so.
The first steps to dealing with this situation is that all the community of the faculty discusses what he wants to change, then change the university, then the Chilean education, then the world (I wish).
These improvements would help to change the society, because, if the people have better education, they can get better social and economic conditions of life. In the faculty it would mean, degrees that are functional to the society, and not to the market as today. If we want to get this, we need to fix the degree’s program, the teacher’s evaluation system, the study room, get more books, and the only way we get that is getting state financing, so we can get what we want, and what we need, and no what enterprises want and need.
So, I guess that’s all, see you next week
Bye.
The library needs lots of improvements, the internet system too, the teacher’s evaluation system, and so and so.
The first steps to dealing with this situation is that all the community of the faculty discusses what he wants to change, then change the university, then the Chilean education, then the world (I wish).
These improvements would help to change the society, because, if the people have better education, they can get better social and economic conditions of life. In the faculty it would mean, degrees that are functional to the society, and not to the market as today. If we want to get this, we need to fix the degree’s program, the teacher’s evaluation system, the study room, get more books, and the only way we get that is getting state financing, so we can get what we want, and what we need, and no what enterprises want and need.
So, I guess that’s all, see you next week
Bye.
lunes, 5 de octubre de 2009
The Coup D'état in Honduras
Hello, today I’m going to talk about the Coup d’état in Honduras, I will describe the situation first, and then I’ll tell you my opinion about Micheletti and then Zelaya. Then I’ll tell you what I think it’s going to happen in Honduras.
In Honduras, on June 29th, in the 2009, the military forces of Honduras arrested the president of this country, whose name is Manuel Zelaya. He was militant of the Liberal Party of Honduras. He was arrested, because he was adopting politics from Chavist regime, this mean, Zelaya called for a vote for constitutional reform, which was declared illegal by bodies such as Parliament and the Supreme Court. Before doing this constitutional reform he was arrested, and Micheletti took the presidency of the country.
Now I’m going to tell you my opinions about Micheletti and then Zelaya. First, I think that Micheletti is a marionette of the interests of the money power, and the right wing of the Honduran politics. I mean, they don’t want to lose power by this new constitution (understanding that Zelaya wanted to turn the constitution to a “more popular” way). And about Zelaya … I think it’s only a common liberal opportunist, that wanted to stay more time with the power, I don’t think he had good intentions by being president.
I think, that Honduras will stay with Micheletti for a while, and then he will leave the power, and he’ll be punished by his own political mates because of the coup d’état when their interests will be satisfied. I don’t know, I’m not optimistic about it, and I don’t care about Zelaya, I think the only thing that’s important right now, is the people who is fighting against this fact government on Honduras.
In Honduras, on June 29th, in the 2009, the military forces of Honduras arrested the president of this country, whose name is Manuel Zelaya. He was militant of the Liberal Party of Honduras. He was arrested, because he was adopting politics from Chavist regime, this mean, Zelaya called for a vote for constitutional reform, which was declared illegal by bodies such as Parliament and the Supreme Court. Before doing this constitutional reform he was arrested, and Micheletti took the presidency of the country.
Now I’m going to tell you my opinions about Micheletti and then Zelaya. First, I think that Micheletti is a marionette of the interests of the money power, and the right wing of the Honduran politics. I mean, they don’t want to lose power by this new constitution (understanding that Zelaya wanted to turn the constitution to a “more popular” way). And about Zelaya … I think it’s only a common liberal opportunist, that wanted to stay more time with the power, I don’t think he had good intentions by being president.
I think, that Honduras will stay with Micheletti for a while, and then he will leave the power, and he’ll be punished by his own political mates because of the coup d’état when their interests will be satisfied. I don’t know, I’m not optimistic about it, and I don’t care about Zelaya, I think the only thing that’s important right now, is the people who is fighting against this fact government on Honduras.
lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2009
What to do and where to go in Santiago.
First of all, hello. I have to do a warning before i start writing: i’m not from Santiago, so it’s possible that i said really non tourist places.
I think that a good place for a foreigner to visit here in Santiago first is all the downtown of it, because it has lots of national culture, the colony architecture, the typical Chilean people. In the downtown are places like the Santa Lucia’s hill (i like it because it has lots of trees and grass); San Cristobal’s hill with the Maria Virgin on its top, and the “teleférico” (i don’t know how to say it in English), because it’s really fun; San Diego Street with all his books, because it is one of the cheapest place to buy books; la Vega, because it’s a popular place that has lots of histories; the Chile university (obviously the Juan Gomez Milla Campus to drink beers, smoke all the things that you can imagine and fight against the police) because it’s better that the Catholic University of Chile and etcetera.
I think that would be good that a tourist go to La Piojera, to drink lots of “terremotos” (in English means earthquake) and get really drunk. Another thing to do in Santiago its travelling on the transantiago transport system, it is really fun to go on the microbus like a sardine on a tin. Other place to visit is the Pablo Neruda’s (he is a really famous poet of Chile, he got the Nobel prize) house in Santiago.
I don’t know anything else about Santiago, so i guess i won’t write more. See you next week. Bye
I think that a good place for a foreigner to visit here in Santiago first is all the downtown of it, because it has lots of national culture, the colony architecture, the typical Chilean people. In the downtown are places like the Santa Lucia’s hill (i like it because it has lots of trees and grass); San Cristobal’s hill with the Maria Virgin on its top, and the “teleférico” (i don’t know how to say it in English), because it’s really fun; San Diego Street with all his books, because it is one of the cheapest place to buy books; la Vega, because it’s a popular place that has lots of histories; the Chile university (obviously the Juan Gomez Milla Campus to drink beers, smoke all the things that you can imagine and fight against the police) because it’s better that the Catholic University of Chile and etcetera.
I think that would be good that a tourist go to La Piojera, to drink lots of “terremotos” (in English means earthquake) and get really drunk. Another thing to do in Santiago its travelling on the transantiago transport system, it is really fun to go on the microbus like a sardine on a tin. Other place to visit is the Pablo Neruda’s (he is a really famous poet of Chile, he got the Nobel prize) house in Santiago.
I don’t know anything else about Santiago, so i guess i won’t write more. See you next week. Bye
lunes, 21 de septiembre de 2009
Alas Congress
About two weeks ago, the degree of sociology of our university, went to Buenos Aires, to a Sociology congress called ALAS (Latinamerican sociology asociation) on the Buenos Aires University. It lasted all the week long.
The conference i enjoyed the most (and the thing that a liked more of the congress) was one called "Trabajo, crisis y autogestión", because the topic that treated this conference was really good: It was about the experiences of some groups of workers of Argentina that ocuppied some companies, and started cooperatives, thing that was very curious. There was workers from a famous ceramic factory called Zanon, called too FASINPAT that means "Fábrica sin patrón" (without boss factory in spanish).
The bad points of the congress was the bad organization of it. There were lots of room change, that made me really confused about where to go. Another thing was the tend that they build in front of the medicine faculty of the UBA, because they put it in a place that, when it was raining (almost all the week rained in B.A), the wáter filled all the place, and we had to go there to certifícate that we were studying on our university, so we’ve got wet.
The highlights of the trip was that i traveled on plane, and i’ve never traveled on one before. I always was looking trough the window to see the mountains and the clouds.
I had a really great time on B.A, i hope i can go again
The conference i enjoyed the most (and the thing that a liked more of the congress) was one called "Trabajo, crisis y autogestión", because the topic that treated this conference was really good: It was about the experiences of some groups of workers of Argentina that ocuppied some companies, and started cooperatives, thing that was very curious. There was workers from a famous ceramic factory called Zanon, called too FASINPAT that means "Fábrica sin patrón" (without boss factory in spanish).
The bad points of the congress was the bad organization of it. There were lots of room change, that made me really confused about where to go. Another thing was the tend that they build in front of the medicine faculty of the UBA, because they put it in a place that, when it was raining (almost all the week rained in B.A), the wáter filled all the place, and we had to go there to certifícate that we were studying on our university, so we’ve got wet.
The highlights of the trip was that i traveled on plane, and i’ve never traveled on one before. I always was looking trough the window to see the mountains and the clouds.
I had a really great time on B.A, i hope i can go again
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