We are university professors, researchers and professionals from
different disciplines: anthropology, biology, communication, economics,
engineering, history, pedagogy, political sciences, psychology,
sociology, and more.
Our objectives:
• To study current society, including the structures and processes that
create and reproduce social inequalities, as well as the social
practices that contribute to overcoming them.
• To analyse sexism, racism ageism and policies aimed at overcoming
them.
• To train professionals of maximum excellence in teaching and research,
who come from different ethnic backgrounds, genders, ages and social
classes.
• To contribute to the incorporation of our country’s university life in
the international scientific community.
Organization in research teams:
A team is constituted for each research project, functioning
autonomously within the lines debated in the plenary sessions, in which
members of the centre and professionals from other groups and centres
participate. The teams for each project appear in the specific sites
within the section on research.
Theoretical training:
Many people who are members of CREA participate in seminars called “With
Book in Hand”. In these seminars, contributions are made by indicating
the page being discussed in order to avoid the frequent habit of talking
or writing about something which has not been read directly. Dialogue is
established based on the validity of arguments rather that positions of
power, based on the reflections made and not on status.
CREA had its own seminar entitled “With Book in Hand”, between 1991 and
2007, and this was used as the base model for many other seminars which
are currently ongoing.
CREA members are currently participating in various seminars:
- The Raimon Bonal Critical Sociological Theory Seminar.
- Jesús Gómez Seminar.
Research lines:
- Dialogic theories. Dialogue Science and Society. Critical
Communicative Research Methodology. Speech Acts.
- Social uses of the information and communication technologies.
- Cultural groups. Romà community. Arab-Muslim community. Jewish
community. Migration.
- Learning communities, development and accreditation of basic skills.
- Gender. Gender violence. The “other women” and other cultures.
Dialogic feminism. New masculinities.
- Governance and active citizenship. Participation of people and groups
that are traditionally non-participatory.
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