Milena Velba Und Micky

frequently who read newspapers and magazines, even if done with some reluctance and little attention as I know that fashion has been the idea that the elite are pessimistic . A magazine of those dedicated to telling stories about the power and the powerful and devoted a cover to the subject. The newspapers, meanwhile, have been published in recent weeks some columns that are in charge of analyzing the problem, by those already known to all talking heads of the media.

It is still striking that is people who hold very prominent positions within the elite (positions associated with the symbolic power) who say that the elite has a depressed mood. In other words, this is something of a self-diagnosis, self-observation, an exercise in self-reference. In any case should not be surprising that elites like they look in the mirror.

How to know if it is true that the elite are pessimistic? is very difficult to say with more certainty of delivering a hunch or opinion of an insider . The national public opinion polls are completely useless for knowing perceptions and states morale in the elite. Specific studies on the Chilean elite, like the chapter dedicated to him UNDP 2004, I have seen lately have been published. So that being a matter of intuition, I guess anyone can say. Reading

a of the same day, I found a story about the study results Global Wealth 2008, the Boston Consulting Group , which examines the changing fortunes in the world. Said about Chile:

In the segment of the population over $ 100 billion in assets, wealth rose 35% to U.S. $ 80 billion. This is a major advance the country in the last 3 years (...). As for families with more than $ 5 million , the study revealed that they rose 38% from 900 to 1,240 homes.

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It quoted an expert who explains that increased wealth has to do with the appreciation of the peso against the dollar and commodity price increases. It also explains that in Latin America most high net worth individuals invest outside their country, unlike Chile:

is a country that believes in its institutions, like Brazil. Thus in both countries the proportion is inverse to the rest of the region, with 70% invested locally. (...). In the country are all Swiss banks and other players have created more products.

words, record increase of wealth and confidence in financial institutions. To me it strikes me that the elite is having just fine.

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Elites melancholy representations of the feminine

About this post in Sociological Meditations on the analysis of Tironi, I remembered an issue that I found very appealing at the time, but did not mention (at least not in this sad and abandoned blog). When Bachelet began to lead the polls and then when won the election in a runoff, the public galleries were filled with people talking about the leaders 'feminine'. Much of the characterizations of this type of leadership were profuse in laudatory adjectives: sweet, warm, tender, conciliatory, friendly, horizontal, friendly, open, dialogic, empathetic, emotionally intelligent , etc. In many cases these characterizations are contrasted with the leadership of 'male': ambitious, aggressive, vertical, executives, hard, rational, discerning, efficient, etc.

For me it was always a mystery (still is) where they come from these ways of understanding women and masculine. They sound similar to the set of dichotomies on which our culture is organized, up and down, good and evil, heaven and hell, etc.. They also seem to have some pop psychoanalysis. Even straight out of a self-help book, but I have no certainty of its origin. It also happens that I find highly suspect.

suspicious, partly because power is power and I was used to assume, following Machiavelli , that whoever exercises is required to submit to their specific laws if you intend to keep it seriously, beyond voluntarism or characterizations of gender in black and white. Suspicious

, finally, being too simplistic and unilateral. Fortunately at that time was reading the stories Patricia Highsmith misogynist and were a great antidote. There is puenden find descriptions of the 'feminine' rather more bleak :

The idea was to kill Sarah Sylvester based on good food, kindness in a sense, to fulfill its duty as a wife (... .) Began to use stronger fats, butter and olive oil goose, make macaroni and cheese, coat the sandwiches with a thick layer of butter, to insist that the milk was a wonderful source of calcium to combat hair loss Sylvester.

The poor fellow did not suspect anything, but had gained too much weight. Played tennis, but remained motionless on the court, without running after the ball. One day his wife, tired of waiting for the outcome of his plan, decided to accelerate the outcome and asked Sylvester to take her on the shoulder to the second floor of the house

excruciating pain gripped her chest. He took a fist to his chest and bared his teeth in a grimace of agony. Sarah watched him lay on the bed. He did nothing. He waited and waited (...). After about 15 minutes, Sylvester froze. Sarah fell asleep at last. When he got up, found that Sylvester was really dead and starting to cool. Then telephoned the family doctor. Nothing

healthier to stop reading the newspaper columnists from time to time.
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Short Term Disability Hemochromatosis

About the last post, I guess many find it very strange to hear sociologists talking about universality. This is because, allegedly, one should be more sensitive to difference, to the specific. Also, supposedly, one should practice the suspicion and be able to debunk the idea of \u200b\u200buniversalism: a discursive facade that tries to be plausible, but it serves to camouflage the unspeakable, ie, domination, subjugation and imperialism. Supposedly

. That seems to be what is expected of you, both among friends among sociologists as "critical." Here

could dwell at length on the difficulties faced by individuals like myself to have studied a race like this. The difficulties, for example, falling in the domestic liberal political theory (Constant , Rawls, Berlin , etc.) With the social theory (Bourdieu , Foucault, etc.). But in truth I will stop briefly in a good spot problem: that of cultural relativism.

Indeed, it is not so original. Cultural relativism, in short the idea that cultures are not better than others, can be compatible in practice with the idea that there are universal values \u200b\u200b(human rights, for example) one considers inviolable. The trick is to take on relativism, but only as a methodological stance, not automatically move it to the political-moral.

What happens is that without relativism as a methodological stance is impossible to make a good research. If you approach an object of study with the intention to judge or condemn to hell, the final result at most would be like a bad story complaint, not to genuine social research. In short, without being methodologically relativist can not understand anything.

The problem is when you take that position too easily to the political-moral. That's when the problems appear, as said earlier: think it's common to wait for a sociologist is relativistic in all areas . However, it is perfectly possible to separate one from the other, in other words, one can safely argue that stoning and female circumcision are worth wild and it's not a bad sociologist.

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