The Faculty of Social Science

The faculty of social science of the University of Chile was created in 1989. It is located in Juan Gómez Millas Campus, along with other six faculties of many different disciplines from science to art. The social science faculty it consist of four department; psicology, sociology, anthropology and education, and the students of this four careers have to share the facilities od the building. The faculty has four floors and an underground. There are and auditorium, two computation rooms, a library, a cafeteria and some laboratories, beside of the class rooms for the different careers.

The facilities of the faculty have improved so much in this last years, for example in 2006, when my generation entered to the university, were few computers and very old and disrepair, but now, in 2009, there arte two computers rooms and the last month the number of computers was increased significantly, but still there are many aspects that need improvement, like the library and the cafeteria. Are needed to increase the number of books and extend the reading spaces, and also is necessary to create spaces for the students, especially study rooms for work meetings, because the library is the only space for do that and as it's small there are not enough space to read and to work in groups.

To face this situation the students have to organize and raise demands to authorities of the faculty and the university. In the different faculties of the university there are different realities in the facilities. Some buildings, like engineering and economy are very modern and have been recently remodeled with the ultimate technology, but the faculties of the JGM campus don't have many resources, for that, for resolve the situation of our faculty is necessary a better distribution of the university resources, more equal between their faculties.

The impact of this improvements can be very important for students and acedemics, specially because our carerrs are theoretical and the books are basic for our formation. Also, the study room would be very important because we do many investigations in group. Of course this thing are the basic and the priorities, but the next steps could be to expand the cafeteria, building more labs and improve the class rooms.

GO CHILE!

The last saturday the chilean football team won to Colombia and classified to the soccer world cup, that will be realized in South Africa in 2010. This classification is very important for the chilean society because since France '98 that Chile did not participate in a world cup, that's twelve years ago! In Chile is not common to have sporting successes, and then, every triumph is celebrated with much happiness. In fact, after the game a crowd gathered in Plaza Italia to celebrate the classification.

The actual football team has a very good level, there are very good players and the coach, Marcelo Bielsa, has demonstrated its ability to handle the team and guide it to good results. I like so much this team! My favourite players are "Chupete Suazo" and Mati Fernández. Suazo is a goalscorer and in this last game he had a goal with which he has nine goals and reached the Brazilian Luis Fabiano in the top of the scoring list of qualifying heats. I think that "El Mati" is a very handsome guy, he has a very cute face and very good legs!

I'm not a fun of football, but I think that the worldcups are very entertaining, I enjoy watching the games with my friends, especially when it plays Chile. The World Cup next year will be in South Africa ... of course I would love to go there! I think there should be a fascinating place, but is far away and really, I don't think I can make that trip.

GO CHILE!!!!

Rich lavish most love on first child

This article shows the findings of a research published for academics from the anthropology department of UCL (University College London) about the disproportionate attention and care that the modern couples give to their first biorn in comparison with their minor children. The researchers support that this fact is culturally ingrained 'cause it can come from the class tradition of primogeniture (something very important in royal family and aristocracy). Another find is that the extra attention to oldest child is more pronounced in rich families than in poorer families.

The study was applied to 14.000 british families (!!) to examine how much time and attention gave each of their children and the results were clear: oldest children were receiving more attention and care of their parents. This situation creates the called one “later-born disadvantage”, 'cause extra care may lead to greater success in later life for older childrens, in decline of their siblings.

This findings were very clear for rich families, though one finds the same trend in poorer families, it is much weaker. The anthropologist explain this fact because "there are so few resources it is harder to give one child much more time, love or possessions than another".

The link for this article is:

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article5733620.ece