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National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2020
Madrid, 03 November 2020
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Miguel Beltrán receives the National Prize for Sociology and Political Science 2020
The Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid has focused his studies on problems related to the sociology of knowledge and science, and the sociological study of Public Administration
Madrid, November 3, 2020 . The Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Miguel Beltrán, has received the 2020 National Prize for Sociology and Political Science after a professional career of more than 40 years.
Beltrán has focused part of his studies on problems related to the sociology of knowledge and science. In empirical research he has worked on different aspects of public administrations , as well as on some dimensions that have to do with inequality and social structure.
He has been director of the Department of Sociology and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Miguel Beltrán was an Extraordinary Prize winner in his Bachelor's and Doctorate degrees , and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Yale University. He has also been a contract professor at the Universities of Florence and Catania, associate professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, visiting researcher at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and visiting professor at different Universities such as Germany, Mexico, Colombia , Peru, Brazil and Chile.
He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish Journal of Sociology . He has been part of the Editorial Boards of the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research and the International Journal of Sociology.
Miguel Beltrán has also been a Civil Administration Technician, in 1974 he was General Secretary of the Institute of Public Opinion (predecessor of the CIS) and in 1981, Technical General Secretary of the Presidency of the Government .
As public recognition of his academic contribution, he received the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise in 2003 .
He is the author of books such as: The Spanish bureaucratic elite (1977), Ideologies and public spending in Spain , 1814-1860 (1977), Science and sociology (1979), Officials before the reform of the Administration (1985), The productivity of Spanish Administration: a comparative analysis (1991), Social reality (1991), Society and language. A sociological reading of Saussure and Chomsky (1991), Public action in the democratic regime (2000), Social perspectives and knowledge (2000), The social structure (2004), and Bourgeoisie and liberalism in 19th century Spain: sociology of a class domination (2010).
The jury for this award was made up of the president of the CIS, the Professor of Sociology José Félix Tezanos, the Professor of Sociology at the Rey Juan Carlos University, Alfonso de Esteban Alonso, the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid and Professor of Political Science, Esther del Campo García, the Professor of Political Science of the National University of Distance Education and General Director of Universities and Higher Artistic Education of the Community of Madrid, Irene Delgado Sotillos, the Professor of Sociology at the National University of Distance Education, María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales, the Professor of Sociology at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Constanza Tobío, the Full Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University, María José Mateo Rivas, the Professor of Sociology and National Sociology Prize 2018, María Ángeles Durán Heras and the Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid and National Sociology Prize 2019, Inés Alberdi.
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