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Este estudio indago en la implicacion de investigadores chilenos que desarrollan investigacion social cualitativa en sus procesos investigativos, intentado comprender como se ha configurado su trayectoria como investigadores, las... more
Este estudio indago en la implicacion de investigadores chilenos que desarrollan investigacion social cualitativa en sus procesos investigativos, intentado comprender como se ha configurado su trayectoria como investigadores, las especificidades de sus practicas investigativas y sus discursos acerca de la investigacion. Se realizaron entrevistas reflexivas individuales a 12 investigadores chilenos de diversas disciplinas, ambitos de investigacion y generaciones. Se presentan los resultados agrupados en dos grandes categorias, una referida a las particularidades del quehacer investigativo, especialmente en relacion a algunas logicas subyacentes a las practicas, y otra referida a los desafios o tensiones que los participantes encontrarian en su trayectoria como investigadores. Los resultados muestran que tanto las trayectorias investigativas, como las logicas y practicas que guian el quehacer en investigacion estan influenciadas por el contexto social, politico y cultural, en el senti...
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En el escenario de la investigacion social cualitativa se ha ido materializando el interes contemporaneo por tematicas del sujeto y de lo subjetivo como objetos de estudio cientifico. La investigacion asume entonces la palabra como un... more
En el escenario de la investigacion social cualitativa se ha ido materializando el interes contemporaneo por tematicas del sujeto y de lo subjetivo como objetos de estudio cientifico. La investigacion asume entonces la palabra como un evento dialogico, contextual y situado, donde ocurre el significado y donde es posible construir conocimiento. Asi, el encuentro entre investigador e investigado es considerado como el lugar a partir del cual es posible construir este conocimiento. Este articulo revisa y discute algunas logicas y premisas fundantes de la investigacion social cualitativa, asumiendo el desafio de hacerlas dialogar con opciones practicas del quehacer de investigacion. Son presentadas tres investigaciones en las que se describen un conjunto de tecnicas que fueron implementadas para acompanar y sostener el proceso de produccion y analisis de los datos, incorporando aspectos relativos a las particularidades de las condiciones de produccion de datos, de las situaciones y rela...
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The present research demonstrates intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents’ past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shape their children’s participation in... more
The present research demonstrates intergenerational influences on collective action participation, whereby parents’ past and current participation in collective action (descriptive family norms) shape their children’s participation in conventional and radical collective action via injunctive family norms (perception that parents value such participation). Two unique data sets were used: dyads of activist parents and their adult children (Study 1, N = 100 dyads) and student activists who participated in a yearlong, three-wave longitudinal study (Study 2, Ns wave 1 = 1,221, Wave 2 = 960, and Wave 3 = 917). Parents’ past and current participation directly and indirectly predicted children’s protest participation in Study 1, while Study 2 showed a similar pattern longitudinally: Perceptions of parents’ participation (descriptive family norm) and approval (injunctive family norm) predicted change in collective action participation over time. Together, results highlight family environment...
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In this study, we examined the intergenerational transmission of collective action from parents to children. Using a mixed‐method approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, we analysed data from 100 dyads of activist... more
In this study, we examined the intergenerational transmission of collective action from parents to children. Using a mixed‐method approach combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, we analysed data from 100 dyads of activist parents in Chile (involved in the mobilizations against the dictatorship during the 1980s) and their adult children (N = 200). The quantitative analysis addressed the role of conversations about politics in the family. The results provided evidence of a direct association between those conversations and the frequency of participation in conventional and radical actions by the children, and an indirect association via children’s knowledge about parental involvement in past social movements. The qualitative phase, which used interviews and thematic analysis on a subsample of 24 dyads (N = 48), confirmed the role of political conversations, but also revealed the influence of other factors such as cultural consumption and joint political participation. This p...
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The current memory struggles about the Chilean dictatorship makes it increasingly relevant to hear a diverse range of voices on the subject. One way of addressing this is to study autobiographical narratives, in which people construct a... more
The current memory struggles about the Chilean dictatorship makes it increasingly relevant to hear a diverse range of voices on the subject. One way of addressing this is to study autobiographical narratives, in which people construct a character to present themselves as the protagonists of a story by taking multiple positions regarding what is remembered. This article presents a study that analyzed the life stories of Chilean people (diverse in their generations, cities, experiences of political repression, political orientations and socio-economic levels) and that distinguished between the positions that they take when presenting themselves as the protagonists of an autobiographical story about the Chilean dictatorship. The results point to salient and recurrent positions that allow people to earn the right to be considered part of the social history of the dictatorship, that involve different definitions regarding those responsible and the victims of what happened, and that unvei...
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Research Interests: Humanities, Political Psychology, Political Science, Politics, Ideology, and 15 moreHistorical memory, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, Political Socialization, Chile, Democracy, Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, Political Orientation, Generations, Dissent, Socioeconomic Status, DDC, Historical Memory, and Psykhé
... For the most part, truth commissions share a historiographical interest in establishing an official record of the events that took place in the past and promoting social covenants for future coexistence (van der Merwe, 2002). ...... more
... For the most part, truth commissions share a historiographical interest in establishing an official record of the events that took place in the past and promoting social covenants for future coexistence (van der Merwe, 2002). ... (Matilde, B, 46) ...
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This article proposes a theoretical and methodological framework with which to investigate the social impact of the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture in Chile. It will allow us to examine elaborative processes that... more
This article proposes a theoretical and methodological framework with which to investigate the social impact of the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture in Chile. It will allow us to examine elaborative processes that unfold from the experience of remembering and/or recognizing traumatic experiences tied to State violence. This Biographical Approach seeks to collect the life stories of professionals who listened first-hand to the testimonies of the victims who appeared before the Commission. The aim, in other words, is to listen to the "State listeners," including the researchers as new listeners incorporated into a chain of mutual recognition. Comprehending these openly elaborative processes based on such experiences allows us to understand not only the specific impact on these professionals themselves, but also, based on the same individual accounts, to examine the social construction of memories related to the traumas produced by State violence.