In this very interesting seminar, organized by Professor Juan Martín, of the Department of Sociology, with the support of the PhD program in Economics, Business and Social Sciences of the US, the book “Las metamorfosis del trabajo y de la relación salarial. The Spanish case”, by Carlos Prieto (Catarata 2024).

In addition to the author himself, Federico Pozo (Sociology US) and Carmen Botia (Sociology UPO) took part in the session.

In this very interesting seminar, held at the Faculty of Education of the University of Seville, Begoña Sánchez Torrejón presented some of the keys to building more inclusive schools, while Josefa Suárez Míguez gave testimony of her experience as a transgender teacher.

In this seminar, held at the Faculty of Education of the University of Seville, Laura Cruz-Castro and Luis Sanz-Menéndez, from the INstituto de Políticas y Biens Públicos of the CSIC (Madrid), explore gender biases in research, focusing on two specific papers. In the first, they explore these possible biases in the research careers of CSIC staff and in the second in the evaluation of research projects.

In the second session of the II Seminar on Qualitative Social Research in Criminology, Elisa García-Mingo (Complutense University of Madrid), gave two interesting sessions. In Researching on the manosphere and in virtual reality environments: Doing Digital Social Research to understand contemporary society, Professor García Mingo Ruíz spoke about her research on machismo in social networks. In a workshop for TFG and postgraduate students, Opening the back room of Digital Social Research on online misogyny: challenges, horizons and strategies of research in transformation, she talked about how qualitative sociological research can be carried out in social networks, a space and methodology that are increasingly important in today's societies.

In this conference, held at the Faculty of Education of the US, Lara Navarro Varas, from the Institut Metròpoli of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Andrea Otero-Mayer, from the UNED, and María Ortega Gómez and Manuel Río Ruiz, both from the US, spoke about some of the most important challenges facing early childhood education, from 0 to 3 years of age.

In this seminar, Professor Raquel Vega-Durán, Director of the Ethnicity, MIgrations and Human Rights Program at Harvard University (USA) presented the first conclusions of a very interesting study about the empty Spain and the place that immigrants are playing in it.

In the first session of the II Seminar on Qualitative Social Research in Criminology, Inmaculada Antolinez (University of Cadiz) and Esperanza Jorge (Pablo de Olavide University), gave two interesting sessions related to qualitative social research on human trafficking. In the first, Some challenges in intervention and research work with young people and women in the context of human trafficking, some of the epistemological issues to be addressed in research with people in situations of vulnerability were presented. The second, Accompanying narratives of people in situations of silencing and human trafficking: methodological reflections, aimed at TFG, TFM and PhD students, focused on more methodological issues.

These sessions were accompanied by an impressive artwork created by a Nigerian woman, victim of trafficking: Windows for a bodily landscape of traces.

In this seminar, Carlos GIl, from the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and Ildefonso Marqués and Manuel Herrera, from the Department of Sociology of the US, talk about educational inequalities.

In this seminar Eduardo Bericat, Professor of Sociology at the University of Seville, David Pérez, nurse at the Oncology Service, Hospital U. Virgen de Valme and winner of the Spanish Association Against Cancer Award (2023) and Nuria Jordá, student, Tiktoker and disease communicator, spoke about the experience of illness, as a concept that brings together the lives and experiences of sick people.

As part of her research stay at the Department of Sociology of the University of Seville, Noelia Valenzuela García, PhD student at the Department of International Public, Criminal and Procedural Law of the University of Cadiz, presented her interesting work on cybercrime in school environments.

In this seminar, Geneviève Brisson, from the Université du Quebec à Rimouski (Canada) and Elizabeth García Mantilla, visiting researcher in the Department of Sociology, from the Universidad Estadual Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (Brazil), explored various ways in which new mining is impacting the populations of the territories where it is implemented. Professor Agustín Fleta also intervened in this seminar to define the concept of new mining and situate it in the recent history of Spain.

This doctoral seminar, organized by the Department of Sociology, the Doctoral Program in Economics, Business and Social Sciences and the Heterquest Research Project, explored the way in which Latin America has been constructed as a continent with tremendous doses of ethnic heterogeneity.

In this seminar, organized by the Department of Sociology and the PhD Program in Economics, Business and Social Sciences, MariaCaterina La Barbera, from the Institute of Philosophy, Center for Human and Social Sciences, belonging to the CSIC, spoke about the concept of intersectionality, how this concept has impacted social research and how this concept can be used to do better social research.

Technical conference on evaluation of international cooperation public policies.

In the first session of the Seminar on Qualitative Social Research in Criminology, Santiago Ruiz Chasco (Universdiad Pablo de Olavide), gave two interesting sessions. In Las caras de la (in)seguridad ciudadana en Madrid: análisis de discursos vecinales y policiales, Professor Ruiz talked about the differences and similarities in the construction of discourses around security in two neighborhoods of Madrid: Salamanca and Lavapiés. In a workshop for TFG and postgraduate students, Qualitative research: uses and scope in Sociology and Criminology, he spoke about the way in which qualitative sociological research has contributed to the empirical study of crime, providing interesting clues and recommendations for the different empirical studies of the students attending.

Organized by Jacobo Palomo, a collaborative fellow in the Department of Sociology, in “From Chile to Iraq. Realidad y teatro de la doctrina del shock”, Andrés Lima, 2019 National Theater Award, talked about the creative process used when staging ideas such as those of Naomi Klein's shock concept.

Juan Martín (Department of Sociology of the US) and Ana Sánchez Acevedo (Department of Spanish and Hispanic American Literature) also took part in the debate.

As part of “Sociology in...”, the series of activities aimed at exploring how Sociology contributes to the disciplines in whose faculties it teaches, in these sessions, Raúl Asensio (IEP, Lima, Peru) reviewed some issues related to museums in the Peruvian context, while Juan Martín (Sociology, US) reflected on how Peru could itself be considered a museum to diversity.

As part of the effort that the Department of Sociology makes to contribute to the intellectual life of the faculties in which it teaches, these four presentations dealt with topics related to informality in collective bargaining (Alejandro Godino, UAB), the paradigm of labor activation (Federico Pozo, US), labor relations in the tourism sector (Daniel Albarracín, CCOO) and the construction of the concept of occupational disease (Agustín Fleta, US).

Directed by Professor Esther Márquez, this conference, with mainly educational and methodological purposes, was aimed at the general public, but above all at the students of the Faculty of Education.

From a perspective centered on social inequality, the conference focused on the educational trajectories of rural and gypsy women, giving voice to these women, from their own speeches (which are not usually heard in academic circles) and from some TFGs carried out on this topic, motivating students to carry out their final projects on topics related to their contexts, from a sociological perspective.

On March 7, 2022, in Seminar 4.3 of the Faculty of Education Sciences, Eduardo Bericat (US) and Mercedes Camarero (UPO) presented some of the most outstanding results of a research on how gender equality has evolved in Spain and Europe, according to the European Gender Equality Index (GEI), a composite indicator designed to measure such differences in the educational, labor and political arenas.

This conference presented “Cracking Meritocracy from the Starting Gate: Social Inequality in Skill Formation and School Choice”, the doctoral thesis of Carlos Gil (US Journalism graduate and researcher at JRC Seville) which has been recognized as the best doctoral thesis of 2020 by the European Consortium for Sociological Research.

The events of February 2000 apparently shook Spain and the European Union. Beyond transcendent anniversaries, it is worth rethinking the significance of these scenarios and these events, which tend to reappear from their apparent lethargy under renewed social forces and currents. What happened gives much food for thought for our times, and many of these issues were reviewed at this conference.

This Doctoral Training Workshop has the format of a meeting for reflection and high-level discussion in the social sciences (with a sociological perspective), which combines keynote lectures by guests of recognized academic and intellectual trajectory, with more limited presentations by researchers from the Department of Sociology. In this way, it links theoretical discussion and the approach of major proposals, with the work being carried out in the sociology department and which can, and should, contribute to the development of the doctoral program.

This seminar highlighted the research that the INCASI Network -International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities-, has been doing in recent years. Carla Vidal Figueroa and Gustavo Castillo Rozas spoke about the “Application of the Social Policy Index (SPI) in two countries with a liberal welfare model: the cases of the United Kingdom and Chile”. Alicia Razeto presented “School absenteeism in Chile: reflections for a comparative analysis”. And Eduardo Donza spoke on “Distribution of monetary income in households in Greater Buenos Aires: a comparative proposal for Seville”.

The aim of this seminar is to learn more about what the PDI of Sociology does in terms of research and teaching innovation, so that colleagues can receive synergies, advice, suggestions, criticism and encouragement.

Although this seminar has been taking place for several years in the Department of Sociology, from this year it has begun to be called “Seminar of teaching and research Evangelina Olid”, in recognition of what our sadly deceased colleague Evangelina Olid has meant in our Department: companionship, collaboration, encouragement, joy and always unconditional help.

In “The INCASI network: an international research model between Europe and Latin America”, Pedro López-Roldán (UAB) and Sandra Facheli (UAB) talked about the constitution, functioning, projects and training and research activities of INCASI, an international network of researchers from Europe and America that explore the different aspects of social inequality on both sides of the Atlantic. The Department of Sociology of the University of Seville is a member of the INCASI network through one of its members: Ildefonso Marqués.

The Permanent Seminar on Socio-Historical Categories of Identity aims to open a space for reflection and debate on the processes of construction of differences that individuals or human groups set in motion when describing, identifying and classifying other collectives, groups and individuals. Although the use of classificatory categories related to the configuration and invention of identities is something common to all societies, we consider that Latin America may constitute a privileged field to explore this phenomenon, both throughout history and in the present, without discarding the interest of confrontation with non-Latin American cases. On this occasion, Professor Andrew Canessa, from the University of Essex, explores some keys to understand the way in which the Gibraltarian population has constructed its British identity.

Jésica Lorena Pla, Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in the Structural Change Program of the Gino Germani Research Institute (University of Buenos Aires) and Emilio J. Ayos, Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in the Group of Studies on Social Policies and Working Conditions of the Gino Germani Research Institute (University of Buenos Aires), proposed some historical keys to understand the present and future of Argentina, in terms of labor and social inequality.

In this conference, Amparo Serrano Pascual (Complutense University of Madrid) and Carlos Fernández Rodríguez (Autonomous University of Madrid) talked about how activation and entrepreneurship have become dominant paradigms in employment discourses.

Clementina Rodríguez, from the Department of Sociology at the University of Seville, presented the most relevant results of a study carried out in the nine Andalusian public universities last year on the values and attitudes of students, their concerns, their priorities and their opinions towards institutions. Knowledge of these factors could help to set the guidelines in our society, especially in education.

The study has been funded by the Junta de Andalucía within the scope of the Cultural Observatory of Andalusian universities.

In “Neighborhood effects on school achievement: a meta-analysis”, Professor Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Daft University of Technology (The Netherlands), discussed his recent work on how students' neighborhood background impacts their academic achievement. In particular, he presented some of the conclusions drawn from a systematic review of the literature on this issue and a meta-analysis of some of the available data. He also commented that these types of analyses could suffer from a major problem: the existence of bias in their publication. With data from the same meta-analysis, he showed that those with significant results have a high chance of being published, which could be over-valuing these effects.

How do women and men face the crisis between “living to work” and “working to live”?

Social policies aimed at the implementation and recognition “of work, care, free time and gender relations” make up the device from which the institutional order of contemporary societies, currently in crisis, is instituted. To what extent do women and men reproduce in everyday life the meaning they have in the institutional sphere or produce it with their own and critical features? What differences and/or inequalities do they show?

Presentation and debate on the results of national research TRACUVI I+D

In “Technology and representation in American Politics”, Professor Andrew Perrin, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spoke in the Graduate Hall of the School of Education about how culture and technology converge to generate the framework in which American politics unfolds.

Inaugural Lecture of the 2015/2016 academic year of the PhD Program in Economics, Business and Social Sciences.

The Banco de Santander Professor of Sociology of the Department of Social Sciences at the Carlos III University gave a lecture on his latest research work: “Labor competition and attitudes towards immigration in Europe”.

INTERINDI 2015 sought to show, analyze and discuss the historicity of the categorizations of identity ascription in Latin America, from its uncertain constitution in the sixteenth century to recent decades, as well as the role played by indigenisms during the twentieth century. To this end, he proposed many questions on a wide range of issues, trajectories and perspectives that share the idea that no category, name or ascription has an obvious meaning and use that we can deduce from the attributes it assigns to specific individuals or collectives, but that all, without exception, occur as part and sample of historical social relations.

Conference on University and Inequalities. Analysis and current debates in Sociology of Education.

The Department of Sociology brought together Margarita Barañano, Lidia Pérez Daza, Lucila Finkel and Manuel Ángel Río, experts and renowned expert on educational inequalities, to present the latest data on existing social inequalities in the university of the crisis.

I Criminology Conference: Society and Crime

Trafficking in persons for labor and sexual exploitation.

Organized by the Department of Sociology and the Local Police of Seville, between May 27 and 28 the First Criminological Conference on Society and Crime was held at the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville, which, in this, its first edition, focused on human trafficking.