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Upcoming educational challenges for my country , in my opinion

EDUCACTION : RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE?            Hello my friends, in this moment I going to talk about a contemporary problem in the chilean society, the education. The country and its education, is the main issue that caused social movements since 2011 mostly, where a part of society has  questioned the lucrative nature of chilean education. Excessive monetary costs that brings the study in Chile, especially in higher education, causes that population with less economic resources can't access to it .  This cause that the education be a privilege and not a right, because if you do not have necesary money, you can not access to education. The problem is that behind the education there is a business.   This not happen if the State directly funded to eduacion , and grant free education to all population,  regardless of your financial resources . Economist explain that this is not posible, because the state government expenditures are quite high, and can not exceed reven

Emile Durkheim: The Suicide

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Emile Durkheim: The Suicide Hello my friends! In this moment I going talk about one of the founding fathers of sociology, called Emile Durkheim :)  Emile was a French sociologist who set the boundaries of the discipline for firts time. He is the first to talk about "Social Fact", Durkheim explain that "a  social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations". The main  topics of Durkheim are : the suicide, social division of work, school discipline, and religious rituals . This time I will focus in his study of suicide, that was the first study of a "social fact" (and not only individual psychological fact) measured quantitatively. Durkheim identified four types of suicide, egoistic suicide,altruistic suicide, anomic su