Launch // Are they or are they made? Chilean business elites facing citizen questioning.

Wednesday 03/15 → 4:30 PM. → Research room, Casa Esperanza, Alberto Hurtado University. Almirante Barroso 10, Santiago.

«Are they born that way or do they become that way? Chilean business elites in the face of citizen questioning.

On this occasion, the panelists will analyze the perspectives with which elites in general, and Chilean elites in particular, are defined and analyzed, their social representation, and their behavior in the face of social changes.

In the words of Daniel Matamala «Few concepts in the social sciences are as controversial, steeped in common sense, and difficult to define as that of »elite." One contribution of this book relates to the perspective from which elites in general are defined and analyzed.

 

Panelists: Daniel Matamala. Chilevisión journalist and La Tercera columnist. María Luisa Méndez. Associate Professor at the Institute of Urban Studies and Territories at PUC, and Director of COES. Alejandro Pelfini. Academic and researcher at the University of Salvador in Buenos Aires and Flacso-Argentina. Tomás Undurraga. Director of the Department of Sociology at UAH. 

 

 

 

 

 

Moderator: Alejandra Luneke. Researcher at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), Center for the Study of Conflicts and Social Cohesion (COES), Millennium Nucleus on Authority and Power Asymmetries (IDEA–USACH), and Sociology professor at UAH.