the sociologist Loving by Miguel He has died today in Madrid at the age of 86 after a long illness, reported Libertad Digital, a medium in which he collaborated.
Born in Pereruela (Zamora) on January 20, 1937, Amando de Miguel was a well-known figure during the Spanish Transition and frequently appeared on television and radio.
Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, he published numerous books and had a constant participation in the Spanish public debate since the eighties. During the Franco regime, Amando de Miguel was sentenced by a War Council for criticizing a homily by a military priest, and in 1981 he had to leave Catalonia for fear of reprisals after promoting the ‘Manifesto of the 2,300’, against linguistic immersion.
Amando de Miguel Rodríguez began his studies at a Secondary School in San Sebastián and studied Political Science in Madrid, with an extraordinary prize and a national end-of-career prize. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1960-61 on “The methodology and first results of the Survey on the Spanish businessman”, with which he obtained the qualification of outstanding and extraordinary prize.
From 1961 to 1963 he specialized in Sociology at Columbia University (New York), collaborating with Juan Linz in the analysis of the Survey on the Spanish businessman. He held positions in private companies and in 1968-69 was appointed interim adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Economics of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
In the 1970-71 academic year, he won the chair of Sociology at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Valencia by competitive examination and later moved to the Central University of Barcelona.
In 1971 he appeared in Barcelona before a War Council for an article published in the magazine “Temas” in which he addressed the homily of a military priest. De Miguel was sentenced to six months of house arrest in Barcelona.
Throughout his professional career, the sociologist published some forty books of sociology essays, among which are: “Sociology of Francoism” (1974); “The heritage of Francoism” (1976); “Forty million Spaniards, forty years later” (1976); “University, factory for the unemployed” (1979) co-authored with Jaime Martín Moreno; “The beautiful intellectuals” (1980); “The crystal ball” (1980); and “Ten errors about the Spanish population” (1982). Other works are “The FOESSA report”, “The power of the word”, “The daffodils”, “Cities and the energy crisis”, “Sex, women and birth in Spain”, “Open letter to a university”, ” Manual of social structure of Spain”, “Sociology or subversion” and “The perversion of language”.
A regular contributor to the media, he wrote for the newspapers Madrid, Diario de Barcelona, Informaciones and Las Provincias”, as well as directing the sociology magazine Papers and the “Status quaesrionis” collection.
In 1987 he published “Cyclical Spain” and in 1988 “La España oculta, la economía submerged”, for which he won the V Espasa Mañana Essay Prize. A year later, in April 1989, he presented in Madrid “La ambición del César”, a critical biography of Felipe González, written jointly with the journalist José Luis Gutiérrez.
On July 10, 1995, he presented his resignation as a director of RTVE, a position for which he was elected by Parliament at the proposal of the PP in November 1994. In April 1996 his book “Con sentido común” appeared, a compilation of articles published in the Madrid newspaper ABC together with unpublished writings.
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Since 2004 he has been a member of the Economic and Social Council of the Community of Madrid and was part of the Honorary Board of the Foundation for the Defense of the Spanish Nation (DENAES), linked to Vox.
He has been awarded the following essay prizes: Espasa (1988), Jovellanos (2001), Miguel Espinosa (2003), Café Short Story Award “El Pícaro” (Toledo, 2004) and the “Fermín Caballero” (Basin, 2007).