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Durkheim or Weber, Hegel or Marx. Theory vs action.
For me, sociology is not an end. It's just a tool.
Too many authors dialoguing with one another sometimes causes me impotence.
It is difficult to see who best understands the social ties.
Maybe I have to get out of that dichotomy. I must be missing something for sure.
I grew up in a country marked by inequality.
We stumble daily upon tired faces, distressed by long days of work.
We see handcarts going against traffic on avenues filled with luxury cars.
Kids away from schools, begging at corners.
Everyone complains about poverty, but we naturalize those situations.
By doing that, we invisibilize them.
Suddenly a homeless person on the street is just part of the city landscape.
In this routine, winners and losers are always the same.
They don't even see them.
This is how we resume all the wrongs which we complain about on a daily basis.
Going outside means facing a reality that concerns me.
Again, the problem ¿How to transform it?
I think education is part of solution.
We need to rethink our classrooms.
For the solution, we have to visibilize the invisible, and this is impossible without denaturalizing our world.
This is the way of change in education, the only one capable of making a fair and less fragmented society.
To rethink the rules of the game. To question them.
We need to stop thinking that things are normal because "it's just like that".
Maybe Durkheim, Weber, Hegel, Marx were right.
Or maybe, it's time to stop theorising and take the first step to change.