Livia García Faroldi

Associate Professor
Faculty of Communication, Office 2.84. / Faculty of Social and Labour Studies, Office 2.76

Tel.: 952 134 307 / 951 952 158
lgarcia@uma.es

Highest Degree Earned: Ph.D. in Sociology (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Interests: political sociology (collective identities, European integration process, misinformation), sociology of the family (social support, Work/Family reconciliation), social network analysis.

She has Degrees in Journalism, Sociology and Political Science, and a Ph.D. in Sociology by the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), with European Mention. She holds a permanent position at the Sociology Department of the University of Málaga (Spain). Her research interests focus in Political Sociology (collective identities, European integration process) and Sociology of the Family (social support, Work/Family reconciliation). In both cases she applies a comparative approach together with a social network perspective. Selected publications in Political Sociology: Construyendo Europa. Las redes sociales en la difusión de actitudes e identificaciones hacia la Unión Europea (CIS, 2008); the chapter “L’évolution du nationalisme andalou depuis la transition démocratique” (in the book Les nationalismes dans l’Espagne contemporaine, Armand Colin, 2012) and the article “Determinants of attitudes towards immigration: testing the influence of interculturalism, group threat theory and national contexts in times of crisis” (International migration, 2017). Selected publications in Sociology of the Family: “Welfare states and social support. An international comparison” (Social Indicators Research, 2015), “Responsability for child and elderly care: who should cover the costs? A comparison of Baltic and Nordic countries” (Social Policy and Administration, 2017), together with Verónica de Miguel and Luis Ayuso, “Mother’s Autonomy or Social Constraints? Coherence and Inconsistency Between Attitudes and Employment Trajectories in Different Welfare Regimes” (Social Politics, 2018) and the book Los españoles y la sexualidad en el siglo XXI (CIS, 2014), co-authored with Luis Ayuso. She has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Lille (France), Essex (England), Mannheim (Germany) and Turin (Italy). She has participated as researcher in several projects financed by the National Ministry of Science and Innovation, AECID, Centre for Andalusian Studies and Andalusian Statistic Institute. She is Academic Coordinator of the Master in Applied Sociology of the University of Málaga together with the Full Professor Félix Requena Santos.