Amando de Miguel

Amando de Miguel
De Miguel in 2010
Born
Amando de Miguel Rodríguez

(1937-01-20)20 January 1937
Pereruela, Spain
Died3 September 2023(2023-09-03) (aged 86)
Madrid, Spain
EducationComplutense University of Madrid
OccupationSociologist

Amando de Miguel Rodríguez (20 January 1937 – 3 September 2023) was a Spanish sociologist.

Biography

Born in Pereruela on 20 January 1937, de Miguel was brought up in a rural community. He became a professor of sociology at his alma mater, the Complutense University of Madrid. He was then sent to be a guest professor at the University of Valencia, the University of Barcelona, and later, Columbia University. He was also invited to teach at Yale University, the University of Florida, and El Colegio de México.

De Miguel left Catalunya in 1981 due to fear of repression after publishing a manifesto about language equality.

De Miguel also published articles in numerous journals, frequently collaborating with Colpisa [es], Cadena COPE, Época, La Razón, and Libertad Digital.

Amando de Miguel died in Madrid on 3 September 2023, at the age of 86.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Benítez, Jorge (3 September 2023). "Muere el sociólogo Amando de Miguel a los 86 años" [Sociologist Amando de Miguel dies at 86]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Vicondoa, Marialuz (11 November 2010). ""Los jóvenes tienen en su centro el ocio y la fiesta, y no el trabajo"". Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). Pamplona. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  3. ↑ de Miguel, Amando (2004). La gran transformación de la sociedad española contemporánea (in Spanish). Editora Regional de Murcia. ISBN 84-7564-277-2.
  4. ↑ "Muere Amando de Miguel, figura clave de la sociología moderna en España" [Amando de Miguel, a key figure of modern sociology in Spain, dies]. El País (in Spanish). 4 September 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  5. ↑ "Muere a los 86 años Amando de Miguel, sociólogo clave en la Transición y padre de la Sociología moderna". ABC (in Spanish). 3 September 2023. Retrieved 4 September 2023.