Lecture by Jerónimo Molina

Today, as part of the 15th anniversary of Polibienestar, we were lucky enough to attend the conference ‘Social Services as an object of scientific knowledge in Spain’ by Jerónimo Molina, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Murcia.
Jerónimo has explained the origins of social services as a branch of scientific knowledge, both in Spain, at the University of Zaragoza and the University of Valencia, and later in Europe, first in Germany and then in the United Kingdom. He has also reviewed some of the authors who were the originators and forerunners of research into social services, such as Luís del Valle of the University of Zaragoza.
He has explained the close relationship and dependence between social services and administrative law, as well as with the science of administration or the analysis of public policy.
The social question is a term used from 1948 onwards until 1920, with the influence of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution and the consequent appearance of the first factories, which had an immense impact on the peasantry of the 19th century, characterised by impoverishment.
Jerónimo Molina is a lawyer, holds a PhD in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and in Philosophy from the University of Coimbra, and is a professor at the University of Murcia. He is a corresponding academic of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He was awarded the Luis Díez del Corral Prize in 2017 by the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies. His main interest is in political realism, a political mentality that he defines as the ‘imagination of disaster’. A specialist in the French polemologist Gaston Bouthoul, he is the author of several books on Julien Freund, Raymond Aron, Carl Schmitt and Wilhelm Röpke. Since its foundation, he has edited the magazine Empresas Políticas, with a special focus on the Franco regime’s state lawyers and the study of the thought of Diego Saavedra Fajardo.

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