Dr Carlos Frade

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

• Crescent House 212
• T: 0161 295 6552
• E: c.frade@salford.ac.uk
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Tuesday 2pm – 4pm

Carlos completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of London (Institute of Education) under the supervision of the late Professor Basil Bernstein. He then moved to Barcelona, to the Open University of Catalonia, where he was Director of the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Carlos joined Salford in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. At Salford Carlos has fulfilled a number of academic leadership roles such as post-graduate coordinator and programme leader; he also led the development and implementation of an MA on Human Rights and Ethics.

Understanding the Social World (course convenor)

Riots, Resistance and Revolutions (course convenor)

Political Sociology

Modernity (course convenor)

Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (course convenor)

Carlos’s current research is particularly concerned with the renewal of social theory and sociology along Weberian and Marxian lines and in a situation of massively regressive social, economic and political transformations. Research is mainly centred on subjectivity-subjectivation and seeks to conceptualise and analyse the different stances and attitudes people take towards the world in four substantive fields:

• The field of everyday life, with a particular focus on the possibilities for life conduct as against mere lifestyles and adaptation to the world.
• The political field, paying particular attention to political ideologies and rationalities, human rights and radical movements.
• The professional field, focused on the question of the vocation or calling and the present and future of the university and the human sciences.
• The question of Europe, which addresses the possibilities for the subjectivation of the idea of Europe and the main obstacles to the construction of a European polity.

Carlos is convenor of the Max Weber Study Group of the British Sociological Association.

PhD Sociology (Institute of Education, University of London)

Member of the British Sociological Association and of the European Sociological Association

Carlos has participated as scientific expert in several rounds of large-scale research project evaluation in the EU Framework Programmes.

Selected publications:

‘Max Weber’s Teaching: A Stance for Modern Subjects Today’, (under review).

‘An Altogether New Prince Five Centuries On: Bringing Machiavelli to Bear on Our Present’, Situations, 2013, 5 (1): (forthcoming).

‘Beneath and Beyond the Fragments: The Charms of Simmel’s Philosophical Path for Contemporary Subjectivities’, Theory, Culture and Society, with I. Darmon, December 2012, 29 (7/8): 197–217.

 ‘The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry?’, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2009, 5 (2): 9-39.

‘Gobernar a otros y gobernarse a sí mismo según la razón política liberal’ (Governing others and governing oneself according to liberal political reason), Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Spanish Journal of Sociological Research), 119 (3): 2007, pp. 35-63.

‘The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group’, European Journal of Sociology (Archives européennes de sociologie / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie), 47 (2): 2006, pp. 171-207.

‘Adult guidance for flexible labour markets: a liberal governmental technology to activate the unemployed and mobilise labour’, International Employment Relations Review, 12 (1): 2006, pp. 25-41, with I. Darmon.

‘New modes of business organisation and precarious employment: towards the re-commodification of labour?’, Journal of European Social Policy, 15 (2): 2005, pp. 141-155, with I. Darmon.

(ed. book): Globalització i diversitat cultural (Globalisation and Cultural Diversity), Barcelona, Pòrtic (in Catalan), 2002.

‘La sociedad civil: una arena en disputa’ (civil society: a disputed arena), in Vidal Beneyto, J. (ed) Hacia una sociedad civil global (Towards a Global Civil Society), Madrid, Taurus/UNESCO, 2003, pp. 193-216.

‘La diversidad cultural a la luz de la antropología’, (cultural diversity in anthropological perspective), in C. Frade (ed), 2002, pp. 9-63.