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The demographics, according to Livi-Bacci (1993)1, is studying the processes that determine the formation, preservation and disappearance of the populations. These processes are: fertility, mortality and mobility. The multiple combinations of these phenomena, interdependent among themselves, determines the speed of the changes of the population, both in its dimensions-numerical, as in its structure. The demography […]

We are in the year in which they debate the prompt renewal of the Millennium Development Goals. An issue that is monopolizing legitimate interest of the international political agenda in what development is concerned, but that does not necessarily exhaust the most relevant issues that have been discussed in the international sphere. Two major issues […]

To understand the complexity of societies and human cultures, being aware of its wealth, is a key factor to understand and accept diversity. A requirement that, in an increasingly globalized world, is becoming indispensable, as well as a competition cross that provides significant added value to any professional profile. (UNIBA 2016) The anthropology, like sociology, […]

Democracy starts by the next. Local politics, institutions nearby, the nominations directly formed and controlled by the citizens today are some of the items that have been gathered under the name of “municipalism”. Here and there you will multiply the experiences of small groups of neighbors who simply want to “change things”, and to that […]

Jordi Heads raises and attempts to answer the following questions: What should be kept, that there is guilt normal when there is abnormal ability of motivation for the standard? Can affect the constraints socio-cultural to the ability of motivation? What affect with enough intensity? If this is so, why not consider them, in the field […]

By Juan Francisco Gutierrez Lopez . By relating the rate of inflation, rate of unemployment, Phillips wanted to highlight with his curve1 the potential causalities between the monetary value of the goods produced by the mass of labour and the notion of progress of capitalist societies. Their postulated economic lay in the principle of progressive […]

In the present academic year 2011/12 grade Sociology at the UNED, in the subject of applied Statistics in social sciences II, the school Team has recommended the reading of the book of Pierre Bourdieu: distinction : criteria and social bases of taste as a complementary resource to the item 4: correspondence Analysis simple, and to […]

By Jose Gutierrez | Degree in Sociology from the UAB When an institution is so deeply rooted in a society we accept it as presented to us, taking for granted that both your organizational structure as the functions performed are unquestionable, falling automatically into the error of ‘non-question’ and in the sagging mental of losing […]

In 2009, the Festival ZEMOS98 dedicated the bulk of their reflections and activities to think together with activists, teachers and people from the fields of art and social innovation, those places, methodologies and processes, that besides the formal education, expressing other forms of knowledge. This occurred in the framework of the international seminar that took […]

Since the beginning of the process of schooling universal and compulsory in Spain, makes just 200 years, a central goal of the school institution has been to achieve the skills all children to achieve their integration in the society. To achieve schooling in total has been a huge effort of the whole society, which has […]