My "Favourite" Subject this Term

I don't have a favourite subject in this semester, but maybe Sociology of Gender is the less boring only because the teacher isn't so dynamic, everything besides that is great; the topics of the classes are entertaining.

In a few words, the subject is an expository class: We sit down and listen to the teacher and  we discuss only when have homework We put our chairs in a circle and do a more inclusive class. It has something in common with Sociology of Football (my favourite subject until now). Both use inclusive methods to explain the author and some concepts and we are not listening to a "god" for an hour and half.

I like this subject more than others mainly because of its contents: It talks about the history of the Feminist Movement, the different points of view since its birth, how Sociology can contribute and how Latin America receives it and developed its own theories about it. In all of these contents we can apply what we learn in the previous subjects and try to contribute in the movement that today is making a difference

Post 7- A person who I admire

I'll talk about a Chilean woman in our field (Social Cience) that I admire and I think We all have to admire her, She deserve it. Her name is Marta Harnecker.

Marta Harnecker isn't a sociologist; She is a psychologist, journalist and a political scientist. She was born in Chile and later she won a a grant to study in France in charge of Louis Althusser, a famous marxist philosopher. Since her youth She showed interest in the labour movement and thanks to her work She achieved the post of adviser in the Socialist Cuba. She achieved a similar post helping Hugo Chavez and the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

In spite of being a woman (something difficult in our world) she accomplished a lot of publications about international politics, analysis about some the situations of some countries, the reconstruction of historical materialism, about the concept of society and many other topics. To sum up, she rethinks, from "actual" theories, how we view our actual society and how we can advance in the construction of a path to change it.

She has contributed to how we can see the world in the XXI century from the Left get over many barriers like dictatorships, being a woman in a sexist world and her own religion. She is a heroine.

A strong woman