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In issue number 181 published in January 2026 in the section Symposium From the journal Estudios Públicos, there are 5 articles published by 5 sociologists, in which the main theme revolves around the work Sociological Narratives and Society. Tomás Moulian, José Joaquín Brunner, and Pedro Morandé: Work, Production Networks, and Effects (1965-2018) from the distinguished academic and doctor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin Claudio Ramos Zincke.
Below we provide the 5 verbatim summaries of each article with their respective author(s), sociologists with outstanding national and international academic careers, with Aldo Mascañero and Rosario Palacios beginning the symposium's account.
Revista Estudios Públicos No. 181 (2026), 166 by Aldo Mascareño and Rosario Palacios.
The Symposium The Return of Sociological Imagination is born from the discussion of the professor's work Claudio Ramos Zincke, Sociological Narratives and Society. Tomás Moulian, José Joaquín Brunner, and Pedro Morandé: Work, Production Networks, and Effects (1965-2018). A volume of about 900 pages on the sociology constructed by the mentioned authors.
The symposium was organized by Alexis Cortés, who starts with the first reflection; continues with José Joaquín Brunner, one of the authors featured in the book; it continues with comments from the sociologist Kathya Araujo, and concludes with the answer of Claudio Ramos Zincke to the previous authors.
Estudios Públicos Magazine n°181 (2026), 167-176 by Alexis Cortés.
The article The sociological account of Claudio Ramos Discuss the book *Relatos sociológicos y sociedad* (Sociological Narratives and Society), defining it as an indispensable work for understanding Chilean sociology. The book is a pragmatic analysis of the sociological narratives of three fundamental authors in Chilean sociology (Moulian, Brunner, and Morandé) and their production networks (personal, textual, and institutional). Its main theoretical contribution is the notion of ‘sociological narrative,’ as it provides a new analytical key for understanding how certain forms of knowledge acquire practical use, giving meaning to the social world.
Revista Estudios Públicos No. 181 (2026), 177–186 by José Joaquín Bruner.
Sociological and biographical accounts. I analyze, from a sociological-autobiographical perspective, some fundamental dimensions of the development of these narratives: their disciplinary and hybrid character; their competitive nature; their insertion into civil society and their entanglement with the media. Furthermore, in the manner of a meta-narrative, I propose an approach that allows for the study of the narratives analyzed by Ramos from the point of view of the intertwined roles assumed by the protagonist sociologists: as academic researchers, as producers of transdisciplinary knowledge, as reflective practitioners training successors, and as contenders in the sociological field and participants in public deliberation.
Revista Estudios Públicos no. 181 (2026), 187 – 194 – 186 by Kathya Araujo.
Sociological Narratives and Social Narratives Under the Sociological Lens. This article analyzes the contribution of the book Sociological Narratives and Society. Tomás Moulian, José Joaquín Brunner, and Pedro Morandé: Work, Production Networks, and Effects (1965-2018), by Claudio Ramos. It argues for the relevance of this contribution to the field of sociological reflection not only for its rigor and the magnitude of the undertaking, but for five other combined reasons. First, for its contribution to the generation of a tradition of Chilean sociological thought, by undertaking an in-depth study of three of the most important contemporary Chilean sociologists.
Revista Estudios Públicos no. 181 (2026), 195–207 by Claudio Ramos Zincke.
On the construction of a sociological metanarrative. The potential contribution of the book to disciplinary reflexivity and highlights central elements of the author's ‘meta-perspective’ for inquiring into the research construction carried out by Tomás Moulian, José Joaquín Brunner, and Pedro Morandé, expressed in their sociological accounts; in this way, it presents foundations for the construction of the book's meta-narrative. Among such elements are the analysis of hybrid networks composed of human actors and texts; the pragmatic orientation, which attends to the productive processes of works and accounts, as well as their dissemination and use; the character of scientific narratives supported by evidential connections that distinguish these accounts from others, such as ideological ones; limited performativity, in contrast to the greater force that this tends to achieve in the case of positivist narratives closely linked to the State, such as many in the field of economics.