Luis Rodríguez Zúñiga (

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, 1942 — May 1991, Madrid) was a Spanish sociologist, who from 1988 until his death was president of the

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Career

Obtaining his bachelor's degree at

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, Rodríguez graduated from the 1970 class of the

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with his

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, his thesis being on the French academic

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. From 1969 to 1971, he studied sociology at the

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, collaborating with Spanish exiles like

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. As such, Rodríguez was anti-Francoist, advocating for democracy during the early 1970s. Consequently, in addition to his studies on

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, he was described by Carlos Moya as a "Tocquevillian socialist sociologist". From 1972, he taught

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at the Faculty of Law at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1982, he became an

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in the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, obtaining the chair of

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the following year. During this time he was also director of the Centro Español de Estudios de América Latina (CEDEAL). From 1988, he was president of the

, directing the journal '' Reis''. On 4 May 1991, he died in Madrid from

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Works

Sources: *''Raymond Aron y la sociedad industrial'', Madrid, CIS, 1973. *''Elites y democracia'',

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, Ed. Fernando Torres, 1976. *''Para una lectura crítica de Durkheim'', Madrid, Akal, 1978. *With C. Iglesias y J. Aramberri, ''Los orígenes de la teoría sociológica'', Madrid, Akal, 1980. * *''Tocqueville. Recuerdos de la Revolución de 1848'', Madrid, Editora Nacional, 1984. *With (comps.), ''Sociología contemporánea. Ocho temas a debate'', Madrid, CIS, 1984.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez Zuniga, Luis 1942 births 1991 deaths Comillas Pontifical University alumni Complutense University of Madrid alumni Spanish Anti-Francoists Spanish socialists Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid Sociologists from Catalonia

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