Who were the members of the guild? A guild is a union of artisans or traders who manage the work of their craft/trade in a selective area. The initial examples of guild created as confraternities of merchants. They have created in a way something between a licensed corporation, a business union, a cartel, and a […]
The families of middle-class spain in the economic crisis
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– […]
The society of castes. Religion and politics in India
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 […]
The clinical sociology
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 […]
The paradoxes of diversion
The book Outsiders, Howard Becker, inaugurated in the 60s, a new current sociological, the study of various forms of departure from the social norms, it is not always associated with the crime. Source: Z Magazine Culture | By Marcelo Pisarro. Question: What about Mozart? Answer: What about Mozart? Question: What happens with the murder? […]
The seven lies of the traditional school, according to Ken Robinson
Source: XLSemanal. By Sir Ken Robinson, one of the world’s foremost experts in education (15/04/2012) . A lecture of 18 minutes in 2006 made him famous. “Schools kill creativity”, he said then in a revolutionary speech on education. Born in Liverpool in 1950, in the heart of a working family of seven brothers, the school […]
The critical theories of Walter Benjamin
It happens with the authors newly incorporated into the canon that are published each year on them hundreds of articles of essay and research, reviews, monographs, collective books, etc, Walter Benjamin is not only an exception to the rule, but that it embodies perfectly this condition of “new rich” of the philosophical culture of contemporary. […]
neighborhoods vitorianas. Egin Ayllu (Community)
Recently he has published “The Neighborhoods Vitorianas” of the Collective Egin Ayllu, a book that encourages us to “get down to work in the exciting task of autoorganizarnos, for the present and the future of our neighborhoods to decide their own neighborhoods.” For more than six centuries, the people living Vitoria, in a context in […]
theory contemporary social
A manual that helps to set the agenda of sociologists, anthropologists and many other social scientists. This manual -the new revised and updated edition of “The social theory in the TWENTIETH century”- explained the figures and schools of thought most significant and placed in the context of historical traditions. While maintaining a high level of […]
What is the wildest place on earth?
What is the wildest place on earth? Top 10 most wildest places on Earth 8 Galapagos Island. 7 Papua New Guinea. 6 Seychelles. 5 Gobi Desert, Mongolia. 4 Sahara Desert. 3 Antarctica. 2 Amazon Rain Forest. 1 Deep Ocean. What does wilderness mean in the Bible? Words translated as “wilderness” occur nearly 300 times in […]