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Raul Atria is a sociologist and lawyer from the Universidad Catolica de Chile. He has a PhD in sociology from the Columbia University, NY. He was dean of social science and director of the Institute of political science of the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
In these days, Atria works as a professor in the department of sociology from FaCSo, in the scope of the sociological theory. He is teaching in the masters of sociology of modernization is the same department.
He was an investigator in the central from Program of politics of popultation from Latin America and in the Latin American Center of demography. His publications was concentrated in the field of the population and development, the higher education, the political sociology and the social stratification.
Some of his publications, as a partner in the economic commission from Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), are "Occupational Structure, Social Structure and Social Classes", "Social capital and poverty reduction in Latin American and Caribbean: in search of a new paradigm" and "The dynamics of social capital development: main factors and their relationship with social movements".
I like his works because they talk about topics that interest me, and they did, probably, make me enroll in this course. His works as a collaborator from ECLAC makes me understand certain realities from Latin America, that the eurocentric studies don`t consider.