Sebastián G. Guzmán

Sebastián G. Guzmán serves as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at West Chester University's College of Sciences and Mathematics. His academic work is deeply rooted in Public Sociology, actively bridging sociological scholarship with real-world social movements to combat inequality through knowledge dissemination and collaborative action.

His research program systematically investigates the formation of political and class subjectivities and their relationship to actions that either perpetuate or challenge structural inequality. Specializing in Political Sociology, Social Movements, and Economic Sociology, his empirical work centers on social rights struggles (particularly housing and education) and debt resistance movements in Chile. This research integrates interdisciplinary perspectives from Latin American Studies, Urban Studies, and Social Psychology, with methodological expertise in Qualitative Methods.

Dr. Guzmán's recent publications (2013-2015) demonstrate consistent theoretical innovation and empirical rigor. His work examines motivated reasoning in debt resistance contexts, expands classical sociological frameworks through Weberian authority typology revisions, and synthesizes Habermas and Bourdieu to explain authoritative speech acceptance. These publications reveal a cohesive research trajectory focused on power dynamics, resistance strategies, and the psychological mechanisms sustaining inequality within neoliberal economic systems.