Alberto Mayol
Alberto Manfredo Mayol Miranda (born 8 July 1976) is a Chilean sociologist, political analyst, and politician. An independent researcher, and author of several works on social sciences, politics, and culture, he was a candidate in the Broad Front 2017 presidential primary.
Alberto Mayol
An opinion poll, conducted by La Segunda in 2017, ranked Mayol in fifth place among the most admired public intellectuals nationwide.[1]
Family and studies[edit]
The son of Manfredo Mayol Durán, a well-known journalist during the period of the military dictatorship, and Mariana Miranda,[2] Alberto Mayol studied sociology at the University of Chile's Faculty of Social Sciences, where he graduated in 1998. Then he worked toward a master's in political science at his alma mater, which he completed in 2000, and, in parallel, a degree in aesthetics at the Catholic University, which he received in 2001. In 2005, he completed a Master of Advanced Studies in sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Currently, he is a doctoral student at the Universidad de Alicante, Spain.[3]
Academic career[edit]
Mayol became a professor at the University of Chile in 2007, in the Faculties of Social Sciences, Law, Philosophy, and Humanities. At the Institute of Public Affairs he served as coordinator in the Research Center in Social Structure and researcher in the Transdisciplinary Laboratory in Social Practices and Subjectivity.[4] He was an advisor to the Observatory of Books and Reading, where he directed research projects funded by the National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA).[5]
Between 2013 and 2023, he belonged to the Department of Management and Public Policies of the Faculty of Administration and Economics of the University of Santiago.[6]
In 2013 his essay El derrumbe del modelo received the Santiago Municipal Literature Award.[7]
His report on the funding of science in Chile, "Do the Fondecyt competitions have a political undertone?", was questioned by other academics in columns published in the newspaper El Mostrador, in which they reproached him for a lack of methodological rigor.[8][9][10][11] Mayol responded to these criticisms through the same medium.[12]
His work focuses on issues of social movements, politics, culture, social structure, social unrest, social theory, culture and research methodology.[31] He has published the following books:
