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Spain suffers a major political crisis. All of the indicators of political public opinion (satisfaction with democracy, trust in institutions, support to the European Union, assessment of the Government and the opposition, etc) are at historic lows. In addition, the corruption scandals contribute to the deterioration of the situation. There are many who think that […]

Has spoken, is speaking, and they will talk a lot about the new Labour Reform of 2012. None of which have been approved in this country has been free of debates and controversies. Rafael Morales-Arce, Professor of Economics at the UNED, and does a very thorough analysis on this new reform, and gives his personal […]

The youth before their insertion in the society Attitudes and demands in relation to the school. An approach to the causes of early school leaving Colectivo Ioé (Carlos Pereda, Walter Actis and Miguel Angel de Prada) Center of Publications. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport . The present study provides a general overview of the […]

Kairos: a time indeterminate in which something important happens. Kairos comes from the ancient Greek philosophy and represents an undetermined time in which something important happens, a “change of direction”, for example, in the course of the stars. The term kairos came to stand for the “right time”, a privileged opportunity that suddenly open up […]

Source: The Country. By Enrique Gil Calvo (professor of Sociology, UCM) . This title is a tribute to Michael Oakeshott, the philosopher, conservative-broke with the tories after the turn to neoliberal adopted by Thatcher, as his last will and testament intellectual published posthumously, although written 50 years before, was titled The politics of faith and […]

Source: The Nation-Society. By Juan G. Bedoya (25/03/2012) . God up in the soup. Listening to the Gop candidates to the presidency of the united States, it would seem that everything is a religion around it. All claim to be the God of every one who would lead his decisions as president. So it was […]

David Harvey is professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). It takes more than 40 years giving a class on The Capital of Marx, and is the author of a “Companion” in two volumes of the great work of Marx. This “close reading” of The […]

In the current economic crisis, middle class families are often faced with problems related to the reconciliation of work and family, especially when both spouses are forced to extend their working hours to reach the end of the month. Researchers of Social Work, National University of Distance Education (UNED) –members of the research group Koinonía– […]

There is not question about India a more complex and controversial than the so-called “caste system”. You have written many books and articles on the issue (although almost none in Spanish). […] The “system” has been criticized ad nauseum, and exalted -although less – to the paroxysm. But, despite the importance that all the world […]

Among the different branches of sociology that have been popping up in recent years, we find the clinical sociology that has its origin in France in the 1980s, and has as a precursor to Robert Sévigny, Gilles Houle, Eugène Enriquez, and Vincent de Gaulejac. The clinical sociology represents a new paradigm for research and intervention […]