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Manuel Antonio Garretón M.
Born in Santiago, Chile, May 23rd 1943.
Sociologist. Graduated at Universidad Católica de Chile. Ph.D. at Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Has been director of several academic institutions, taught in
foreign and national universities and adviser of national and international public and
prívate institutions.
Main research and teaching themes with participation in academic and public debate:
democratizations and transitions, State and Society, authoritarianism and democracy,
political parties, university and society, gender, culture and education, social movements
and actors, social sciences development, public opinion and social demands, Latin
American sociological theory, modernity and modernization.
Has published more than 300 articles in different languages and more than 40 books as
author, co-author or editor. Among these books: La Unidad Popular y el conflicto político
en Chile (1983 co-author). Dictaduras y democratización (1984). The Chilean Political
Process (1983 spanish, 1989 english), Fear at the edge, state terror and resistance in Latin
America (1992, co-editor). Hacia una nueva era política. Estudio sobre las
democratizaciones. (1995). Política y sociedad entre dos épocas. América Latina en el
cambio de siglo (2000). La sociedad en que vivi(re)mos. Introducción sociológica al
cambio de siglo (2000), Latin America in the 21st century. Toward a new socio-political
matrix (co-author, 2003. El espacio cultural latinoamericano. Bases para una política de
integración cultural (coordinator and co-author, 2003). The incomplete democracy. Studies
on politics and society in Latin America and Chile. (October 2003). Del post-pinochetismo
a la sociedad democrática. Globalización y Política en el bicentenario (2007).
Neoliberalismo corregido y progresismo limitado. Los gobiernos de la Concertación en
Chile (2012)
Current position: Professor University of Chile, Department of Sociology.
In 2007 was awarded with the National Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities
E-mail : magarret@uchile.cl ; mgarreton@mi.cl;
Web: www.manuelantoniogarreton.cl