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La terciarización, o transición hacia economías de servicios con un creciente protagonismo de las... more La terciarización, o transición hacia economías de servicios con un creciente protagonismo de las ocupaciones no manuales, ha sido destacada como un fenómeno central de las sociedades contemporáneas. En este trabajo se reconstruye brevemente este debate, y se muestra que si bien pudiera existir un crecimiento de ocupaciones no manuales, y con ello podría pensarse que habría un progresivo avance hacia una sociedad de clase media, hay importantes hallazgos que dificultan simplemente aceptar la afirmación de que Chile se ha convertido en tal tipo de sociedad mesocrática.
Universum (Talca), 2013
La literatura sociológica sobre la clase media alta, desarrollada fundamentalmente en la segunda ... more La literatura sociológica sobre la clase media alta, desarrollada fundamentalmente en la segunda parte del siglo XX, nos ha permitido conocer en detalle su comportamiento político y cultural, principalmente en los casos de Europa occidental y Estados Unidos. De este trabajo podemos extraer dos tesis que con guran la imagen de esta clase social: la exclusividad y la fragmentación. Exclusividad porque sus miembros muestran un comportamiento político frecuentemente similar al de las clases más altas de la sociedad y un patrón cultural en donde el re namiento y la educación han sido elementos centrales de su formación como clase. Fragmentación porque tanto su comportamiento político como su aproximación más individualista a la
This paper is concerned with processes of place making (Benson, 2014) and belonging among middle ... more This paper is concerned with processes of place making (Benson, 2014) and belonging among middle
class residents in Santiago de Chile, and particularly focuses on the ways in which neighborhood groups
seek to receive heritage status for their areas of residence, as a way to contest and impede the demolition
of houses in order to build high-rise buildings. I particularly focus on the tensions inherent in reconciling
a critical view of neoliberal residential politics with a securing of their individual or family class position.
I bring together debates and evidence about social and spatial boundary making with analysis of strategies
of reproduction of class position. The paper focuses on intra-class symbolic boundaries in place making
or neighborhood making, and the local politics and practices involved, by addressing the relationship of
the middle classes to territory and their place in the contemporary city (Andreotti, Le Galès and Moreno-
Fuentes, 2014; Bacqué et al, 2015; Bridge, Butler and Lees, 2012; Brown-Saracino, 2009; Butler and
Robson, 2003; Low, 2013; Savage, Bagnall and Longhurst, 2005; Zukin, 2010). I discuss data obtained
from research in five inner-city urban Santiago neighbourhoods that had been, or were in the process of
being declared “heritage neighborhoods” by Chile’s Council for National Monuments (CMN, in the
Spanish acronym). The research blends data drawn from a mix of sources: in depth interviews, non--
participant observation, content analysis of CMN legal texts, real estate advertisements, websites of
organizations of local residents, and copies of the files prepared by some neighborhood groups for
submission to the CMN in order to seek heritage status.
Universum (Talca), 2009
En los últimos años, ha cobrado una creciente importancia el estudio de los patrones de participa... more En los últimos años, ha cobrado una creciente importancia el estudio de los patrones de participación y gusto culturales. A este respecto, la obra del sociólogo francés Pierre Bourdieu se ha constituido en la referencia clave, a la que han recurrido tanto adherentes como detractores. En este trabajo presentamos los resultados de una investigación empírica que refuerzan dos de las tesis más significativas de la aportación de este intelectual: las de la homología, en nuestro caso entre sub-campos culturales, y la de la relación entre cultura y estructura. En otros términos, frente a las tesis de una creciente individualización, este estudio muestra cómo los patrones de participación cultural en Chile tienen fuertes bases clasistas. Asimismo, se subraya la edad como una variable clave. Finalmente, desde un punto de vista metodológico, desarrollamos el estudio con la técnica que el autor señalado hizo célebre, el análisis de correspondencias múltiples.
The 2015 COES Conference aims to understand social conflict in its spatial dimension with a mult... more The 2015 COES Conference aims to understand social conflict in its spatial dimension with a multiscale perspective. It is meant to examine the issues related to this topic at a micro, meso and macro social levels of the household, the neighborhood, the city, the region, the nation and also the planetary dimension. Conference participants will be asked to address the following questions: Which are the relationships between urban growth and socio-environmental conflicts? Which are the relationships regarding governance, public investment and unequal development of territories? Thus the conference seeks to critically examine current and past development and growth models from a spatial vision and multiscale perspective and to explore its territorial implications. Some interests of the urban and territorial disputes to which this conference refers are: violence and criminality, displacement and the problems caused by gentrification, coexistence and sociability in diversity, socio-territorial segregation, redefinition and appropriation of public space, regionalism and conflict, tensions between the central government, local governments and communities, and metropolitan and territorial governance, among others.
The 2015 COES Annual Conference will focus on the following four areas: • Socio-Environmental Conflicts, Stakeholders, Interests and Identities • Territorial Impacts of Segregation, Gentrification and Inequality • Institutional Structure, Territorial Governance and Social Movements • Urban-territorial Conflict and Everyday life
Documento de trabajo publicado en www.desigualdades.cl, correspondiente a una serie de trabajo so... more Documento de trabajo publicado en www.desigualdades.cl, correspondiente a una serie de trabajo sobre medición de variables en estratificación social (clase, etnia, etc.)
Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, Jan 1, 2008
Chile 2008: percepciones y actitudes sociales, Jan 1, 2008
Franco, Hopenhayn y León, Jan 1, 2010
Middle Class, Jan 1, 2007
Universum (Talca), Jan 1, 2009
The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. All in-text references underlined in b... more The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. All in-text references underlined in blue are added to the original document and are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately.
Estratificación y movilidad social en américa latina. …, Jan 1, 2007
The Sociological Review, Jan 1, 2008
This paper explores in-depth interviews on aspects of middle class identity in a neoliberal age, ... more This paper explores in-depth interviews on aspects of middle class identity in a neoliberal age, taking the case of Chile's rapid and stark transition to a neoliberal economic model which was imposed by a dictatorship but later reproduced during democracy. 1 The paper reveals that there are no challenges to middle class identities (e.g. from the working class, or peasants). In this respect, these are neo-liberal middle class identities in that their way of thinking is preconditioned by market dominance. Informed by Bourdieu's views on class identities, this article emphasises the horizontal, non-hierarchical nature of contemporary class taste, and contributes to debates on stratification and culture, settling accounts with older class theory which perceives contests between the popular and middle classes. Notwithstanding this, however, I argue that processes of horizontal differentiation do involve tensions between cultural and moral boundaries. This article therefore also offers an alternative approach for exploring how middle class identities experience processes of individualization. It is argued that individualization processes should be placed in social and ethical registers as they could be in tension with various ways of understanding authenticity: being true to oneself or to one's origins.
La terciarización, o transición hacia economías de servicios con un creciente protagonismo de las... more La terciarización, o transición hacia economías de servicios con un creciente protagonismo de las ocupaciones no manuales, ha sido destacada como un fenómeno central de las sociedades contemporáneas. En este trabajo se reconstruye brevemente este debate, y se muestra que si bien pudiera existir un crecimiento de ocupaciones no manuales, y con ello podría pensarse que habría un progresivo avance hacia una sociedad de clase media, hay importantes hallazgos que dificultan simplemente aceptar la afirmación de que Chile se ha convertido en tal tipo de sociedad mesocrática.
Universum (Talca), 2013
La literatura sociológica sobre la clase media alta, desarrollada fundamentalmente en la segunda ... more La literatura sociológica sobre la clase media alta, desarrollada fundamentalmente en la segunda parte del siglo XX, nos ha permitido conocer en detalle su comportamiento político y cultural, principalmente en los casos de Europa occidental y Estados Unidos. De este trabajo podemos extraer dos tesis que con guran la imagen de esta clase social: la exclusividad y la fragmentación. Exclusividad porque sus miembros muestran un comportamiento político frecuentemente similar al de las clases más altas de la sociedad y un patrón cultural en donde el re namiento y la educación han sido elementos centrales de su formación como clase. Fragmentación porque tanto su comportamiento político como su aproximación más individualista a la
This paper is concerned with processes of place making (Benson, 2014) and belonging among middle ... more This paper is concerned with processes of place making (Benson, 2014) and belonging among middle
class residents in Santiago de Chile, and particularly focuses on the ways in which neighborhood groups
seek to receive heritage status for their areas of residence, as a way to contest and impede the demolition
of houses in order to build high-rise buildings. I particularly focus on the tensions inherent in reconciling
a critical view of neoliberal residential politics with a securing of their individual or family class position.
I bring together debates and evidence about social and spatial boundary making with analysis of strategies
of reproduction of class position. The paper focuses on intra-class symbolic boundaries in place making
or neighborhood making, and the local politics and practices involved, by addressing the relationship of
the middle classes to territory and their place in the contemporary city (Andreotti, Le Galès and Moreno-
Fuentes, 2014; Bacqué et al, 2015; Bridge, Butler and Lees, 2012; Brown-Saracino, 2009; Butler and
Robson, 2003; Low, 2013; Savage, Bagnall and Longhurst, 2005; Zukin, 2010). I discuss data obtained
from research in five inner-city urban Santiago neighbourhoods that had been, or were in the process of
being declared “heritage neighborhoods” by Chile’s Council for National Monuments (CMN, in the
Spanish acronym). The research blends data drawn from a mix of sources: in depth interviews, non--
participant observation, content analysis of CMN legal texts, real estate advertisements, websites of
organizations of local residents, and copies of the files prepared by some neighborhood groups for
submission to the CMN in order to seek heritage status.
Universum (Talca), 2009
En los últimos años, ha cobrado una creciente importancia el estudio de los patrones de participa... more En los últimos años, ha cobrado una creciente importancia el estudio de los patrones de participación y gusto culturales. A este respecto, la obra del sociólogo francés Pierre Bourdieu se ha constituido en la referencia clave, a la que han recurrido tanto adherentes como detractores. En este trabajo presentamos los resultados de una investigación empírica que refuerzan dos de las tesis más significativas de la aportación de este intelectual: las de la homología, en nuestro caso entre sub-campos culturales, y la de la relación entre cultura y estructura. En otros términos, frente a las tesis de una creciente individualización, este estudio muestra cómo los patrones de participación cultural en Chile tienen fuertes bases clasistas. Asimismo, se subraya la edad como una variable clave. Finalmente, desde un punto de vista metodológico, desarrollamos el estudio con la técnica que el autor señalado hizo célebre, el análisis de correspondencias múltiples.
The 2015 COES Conference aims to understand social conflict in its spatial dimension with a mult... more The 2015 COES Conference aims to understand social conflict in its spatial dimension with a multiscale perspective. It is meant to examine the issues related to this topic at a micro, meso and macro social levels of the household, the neighborhood, the city, the region, the nation and also the planetary dimension. Conference participants will be asked to address the following questions: Which are the relationships between urban growth and socio-environmental conflicts? Which are the relationships regarding governance, public investment and unequal development of territories? Thus the conference seeks to critically examine current and past development and growth models from a spatial vision and multiscale perspective and to explore its territorial implications. Some interests of the urban and territorial disputes to which this conference refers are: violence and criminality, displacement and the problems caused by gentrification, coexistence and sociability in diversity, socio-territorial segregation, redefinition and appropriation of public space, regionalism and conflict, tensions between the central government, local governments and communities, and metropolitan and territorial governance, among others.
The 2015 COES Annual Conference will focus on the following four areas: • Socio-Environmental Conflicts, Stakeholders, Interests and Identities • Territorial Impacts of Segregation, Gentrification and Inequality • Institutional Structure, Territorial Governance and Social Movements • Urban-territorial Conflict and Everyday life
Documento de trabajo publicado en www.desigualdades.cl, correspondiente a una serie de trabajo so... more Documento de trabajo publicado en www.desigualdades.cl, correspondiente a una serie de trabajo sobre medición de variables en estratificación social (clase, etnia, etc.)
Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, Jan 1, 2008
Chile 2008: percepciones y actitudes sociales, Jan 1, 2008
Franco, Hopenhayn y León, Jan 1, 2010
Middle Class, Jan 1, 2007
Universum (Talca), Jan 1, 2009
The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. All in-text references underlined in b... more The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. All in-text references underlined in blue are added to the original document and are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately.
Estratificación y movilidad social en américa latina. …, Jan 1, 2007
The Sociological Review, Jan 1, 2008
This paper explores in-depth interviews on aspects of middle class identity in a neoliberal age, ... more This paper explores in-depth interviews on aspects of middle class identity in a neoliberal age, taking the case of Chile's rapid and stark transition to a neoliberal economic model which was imposed by a dictatorship but later reproduced during democracy. 1 The paper reveals that there are no challenges to middle class identities (e.g. from the working class, or peasants). In this respect, these are neo-liberal middle class identities in that their way of thinking is preconditioned by market dominance. Informed by Bourdieu's views on class identities, this article emphasises the horizontal, non-hierarchical nature of contemporary class taste, and contributes to debates on stratification and culture, settling accounts with older class theory which perceives contests between the popular and middle classes. Notwithstanding this, however, I argue that processes of horizontal differentiation do involve tensions between cultural and moral boundaries. This article therefore also offers an alternative approach for exploring how middle class identities experience processes of individualization. It is argued that individualization processes should be placed in social and ethical registers as they could be in tension with various ways of understanding authenticity: being true to oneself or to one's origins.