An expert on my field...

Today I'm going to talk about an expert on my field. My study field is the sociology. That which is a branch o social sciences that studies the relations and interactions between individuals, and between social groups of the society.

The sociology covers different areas of study. for example, political sociology, economic sociology, art sociology, sport sociology between others. 

Exist many important sociologists but most are dead. One well-known expert on the sociology that still alive is Jürgen Habermas.

Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere.

 

Habermas was born in Düsseldorf, Rhine Province, in 1929, to a middle class and rather traditional family. He studied philosophy and sociology under the critical theorists Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Institute for Social. The Frankfurt school is a important Institute for Social Research in the which a researchers group adhered to the theories of Marx, Hegel and Freud.

The importance his job is: his research about to foundations of social theory which seeks to analyze the societies of advanced capitalism.

Today, Habermas has 86 years. In his life he has received many awards for his research. For example: Theodor W. Adorno Awars in 1980, Karl Jaspers Prize in 1995, The Prince of Asturias Foundation in Social Sciences in 2003, Ulysses Medal, University College Dublin in 2010, The Munich Culture Award in 2012, between others. Furthermore, the last prize that he has received was Erasmus Prize in 2013, that is an annual prize awarded by the board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation to individuals or institutions that have made exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe and the rest of the world.

In the personal, I like habermas because is a sociologist that created his own theory, in based the important sociologists of history, but his studies remains original.

 Habermas today.