Alain Touraine highlighted the contribution of Flecha in recognizing the knowledge of cultural analysis of people without studies:[2] At times, as Ramón Flecha demonstrates, knowledge goes from bottom to top, when individuals without degrees produce and invent cultural analyses based on their own experience.Ulrich Beck pointed out how Flecha's analysis of contemporary sociological theory demonstrated rigorous research with facts, linking theory with criticism and empirical research with praxis:[3] combines rigorous research with facts, including the intention for a dialogical utopia.
But this broad intention is presented in the book, joining theory with critique and empirical research with praxis, in such a charming way that it grabs its readers and captures them under its spell.He attributes a strong coherence between his personal and social life and the values that he promotes in his research.
[4] His sociological contributions cover different areas; research methodology (communicative methodology),[5] culture (dialogic literary gatherings),[6] economics (successful cooperative actions),[7] education (learning communities),[8] cultural groups (distinction of modern and postmodern racism),[9] new masculinities (alternative masculinities),[10] sociology of science (scientific, political and social impact)[11] and social theory (dialogic societies).
In 1967, he collaborated in the creation of a cultural centre of activities in the most deprived area of his city of birth, Bilbao.
In 1978 he moved to a neighbourhood of Barcelona where there were shacks and founded La Verneda Adult School – Sant Martí, being the first Spanish experience published in the specialized journal "Harvard Educational Review",[14] and identified as one of the exemplary adult education experiences.
[21] Due to his stand in favor of the victims, he himself has received attacks and defamation of his person, which is known as second-order sexual harassment, a concept about which he has recently published another research article in Violence Against Women, as the press has echoed.
[23] The main conclusion of the study was the need for recognition of the Roma people on the part of the institutions, and this contribution was introduced in a parliamentary session being approved unanimously by the European Parliament.