Franco, María José
Undergraduate -Postgraduate education:
Licentiate in Communication Studies with minor in Research and Planning of Communication (Faculty of Communication Sciences, UNC). Specialist in Communication Research,CEA (Center for Advanced Studies), UNC (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba). Ph.D. in Social Sciences. Faculty of Social Sciences,UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
Teaching position(s) at the FCS:
Assistant Professor in Methodology of Social Research I (Social Work Degree).
Assistant Professor in Sociological Theory and Modernity (Social Work Degree).
Assistant Professor in Sociological Theory I (Sociology and Political Sciences Degrees).
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Research Center:
IPSIS - Politics, Society and Social Intervention Institute
IPSIS - Politics, Society and Social Intervention Institute
Key words:
Social organizations. Trade unions. Collective action. Labor. State.
Lines of investigation:
Social conflicts, collective action, and the state. Workers' organizations and labor. Public policy and social organizations.
Bonding capabilities:
Experience in working with social and trade-union organizations in the development of studies, social proyects, training and qualitatives and participatory methodologies. Experience in counseling and producing diagnoses for public institutions.
Cyt expertise:
Experience in the analysis of socio-political conflicts, collective actions taken by social and trade-union organizations and their connection with the state in Argentina. Among those inquiries, the transformations in work and workers' organizations and their relation with the process of democratization are of special interest. The study of these issues included various social actors from Córdoba in the period that goes from the democratic reconstruction to the present: territorial, neighborhood, militant, unemployed workers' and popular economy organizations. Currently, in the context of two collective researches in progress, she focuses on comprehending the transformations in the dynamic of protests in Córdoba (2016 and 2024) and in the disputes over the recognition of socio-communitary work of care in the public sphere (2022-2025).
Current research project/program:
Research director of Formar project, SeCyT (Science and Technology Office): Conflicts, Collective Actions and State in Córdoba. A Study on Protests in a Pre and Post-pandemic Context.
Researcher in Consolidar project, SeCyT (Science and Technology Office): The Socio-communitary Production of Care in Córdoba's Territorial Organizations during 2022 and 2025: an Approach from the Subjects, Intergenerational Relations and Disputes in Public Sphere Outlook".