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Ramón Flecha


Ramón Flecha is a professor of sociology at the University of Barcelona, Doctor Honoris Causa from West University of Timişoara, and a renowned researcher in social sciences in Europe. Alain Touraine commented about Flecha's contribution:

At times, as Ramón Flecha demonstrates, knowledge goes from bottom to top, when individuals without degrees produce and invent cultural analyses based on their own experience.

Ulrich Beck has said that Flecha's book Contemporary Sociological Theory

combines rigorous research with facts, including the intention for a dialogical utopia. But this broad intention is presented in the book, joining theory with critique and empirical research with praxis, in such a charming way that it grabs its readers and captures them under its spell.

Flecha’s investigations stand out for their joint impact in the scientific, political and social domains. The main conclusion of the first project that he directed in the European Union’s Framework Program of research WORKALO,The creation of new occupational patterns for cultural minorities: The gypsy case, was passed by unanimous vote by the European Parliament, leading to different European and member states’ policies. The second project directed by him (INCLUD-EDStrategies for inclusion and social cohesion from education in Europe) was the only one from the Social Sciences and Humanities included in the list that the European Commission published with 10 successful scientific investigations. Ramon Flecha is currently directing the project IMPACT-EV Evaluating the impact and outcomes of European SSH research, which is the research project that the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme of research has funded in order to develop indicators and standards that will serve to evaluate not only the scientific impact of the research in the Social Sciences and the Humanities but particularly its political and social impacts. To the recognised experience of Flecha in achieving outstanding scientific, political and especially social impact demonstrated—among other projects—in the former EC-funded research he has led, the IMPACT-EV consortium, adds the expertise of highly known experts in the analysis and assessment of research impact from eight other institutions in Europe.

His sociological contributions cover different areas: research methodology (communicative methodology), culture (dialogic literary gatherings), economy (successful cooperative actions), education (learning communities), cultural groups (dialogic societal community), new masculinities (alternative masculinities), sociology of science (scientific, political and social impact) and social theory (dialogic societies). His work has been published in twelve different languages including German, Catalan, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Basque, Galician, Finnish, French, English, Portuguese, Romanian.


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