Seguir a los clásicos: un taller oculto en la formación del sociólogo

Abstract

Like a reflective exercise on the back room of the sociological education, and with the example of the partial reconstruction of an intellectual itinerary, the author tries to identify some used forms and scientific resources, throughout the years, in a permanent go and return to the classics of the social sciences. In that journey and that reflection he identifies some lessons that can serve to defend a style of education for the students that begins, or persevere, in the sociological craft. The foundations for that are in the permanent reading on great oeuvres, so to question, to identify and to vivify the contributions of and those that we have called classics of social sciences. Authors like Charles Babbage, John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley, Stanley Jevons, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Adolfo Posada, Emilia Pardo Bazán, among others, march past by this text, without respecting the limits of the present disciplinary demarcations. To the search of a more exact interpretation of the complex world that we lived in. And outlining, also, a vindication of the important role of women in the creation and consolidation of the classic tradition in sociology.