Bob Robinson (RR)

Jurgen Habermas

he does seem to be concerned in fostering spirit and questioning the validity of objective science, advanced capitalism, and the current forms of western democracy.

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António Pedro Dores (APD)

Pierre Bourdieu

My main theorical reference is Pierre Bourdieu. His work, I think, is very critized in the States. In Lisbon he is the big reference. Habermas is respected as a political idealistic philosopher. Habermas is a main reference to communication studies and for leftwing social scientists that prefer qualitative methodological approaches and deny quantitative approaches.

"I do wonder what you mean by the phrase "How people (individuals and popular masses) decide themselves to move on." You ask me.

I mean to put P. Bourdieu up side down. He call for "dispositions" meaning automatic ways to organize behaviours and feelings people acquire by first and second socialization processes. My call is to understand for "dispositions" the actual mobilization of a specific state of spirit (let´s say prohibitionist) that organise in a social manner dominant behaviours and feelings - the securitarian wave we live in. Decision making, to people who agree and to people who do not agree to securitarian developments, all refers to the over all social dispositions and adapt to it. It means that we choose freely to move on in one of the different directions we are socialized with in youth ages according to the way we want to use the social big wave. Some times we want to resist. Other times we want to enjoy. Other times we want to participate and join forces with people in charge. Whatever.

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