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Blog 7: "Comandante Tamara: From Sociology to Revolution"

Cecilia Magni also know as "Comandante Tamara" was a chilean revolutionary sociologist who studied Sociology at the Universidad de Chile in the 80’s. Cecilia was born in 1956 in in a high class family, is that why she studied in a exclusive school of Santiago, the Grange School, after this, in 1080 she ingress to the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FACSo) of the Universidad de Chile. In this year,  she united to the Juventudes Comunistas of the Partido Comunista de Chile, and then, she united to the Frente Patriotico Manuel Rodriguez and start her career of a armed revolutionary being a protagonist in the atack to the dictator Augusto Pinochet named “Operación siglo XX”. In my opinion, she is important in my field because she combined two important things, given to you by sociology: the tools to analyze society and action to transform reality. She understood that the context was so complex because of the dictatorship and she acted in the name of justice. I think she...

Blog 6: My Postgraduate

The postgraduate is really important after undergraduate is over, in my case, when I finish sociology, I want to travel to Concepción and study a postgraduate in the Universidad de Concepción. The postgraduate that I want to study is the Magister of History, i choose this one because I want to complement my knowledge about sociology with the study of a magister in history, this wil allow me understand better social process and historical interpretations. On the other hand, I choose Concepcion and the Universidad de Concepción because is a city and a university  that I really like, the streets, the parks, the builds, etc. I would like to study this in part time because I think in complement this with my future work as a sociologist and i hope this magister allows me lear about a lot of things related to history and social sciences.

Blog 5: My reflections on the demonstrations at FACSO

- This year will be historic for the feminist movement in our country, thousands of women went to the streets to demand stop the violence against them. Feminist still-in FACSo was increible, it makes me change the way I look social movements, because no one before was like this one. During this time, I devoted time to learn so much, lear about feminism, about organization of my comrades, etc. Besides, with comrades of different careers of FACSo we created a group of discussion and read about sexuality, sexual diversity and other thing that we live in our cotidianity. This group names “Círculo de Identidades No Heterosexuales, Trans y No binaries FACSo”, besides we make different discussion sessions about different areas like gay misogyny, rape culture, etc.

POST 4: MY FUTURE JOB

Since I started to study sociology in 2017 at the Universidad de Chile, the idiea of my have change for so many reassons. First, I started to understand what a sociologist do, and that helps me to create an idea of my future. In my future job, I want to work as a sociologist in a municipality or a ministry creating public policies that helps people to solve problems. I hope that my job doesn't need an office and needs work in the field to understand of a better way the problems like insecurity, political participation, integration, etc. I hope my future job needs that I travel a lot, I want to visit all Latin America and learn about different lenguages, cultures and societies.  In conclusion, I want  a job that makes me happy with a good labor environment.