By Gemma Torres . In one of the ads of HSBC bank (The HongKong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is said, as you can see in the photo,there are five times more people learning English in China than there are inhabitants of England. Curious, isn’t it? This announcement was hung in the New York airport and […]
The CIEs, the irregularity and the deprivation of liberty
By Patricia Rivero and Anna Niubo . As is well known, the CIEs are the centres of internment of non-prison where it stops so precautionary or preventive to those foreign persons not belonging to the EU who are in irregular administrative. In these centers, people are detained and deprived of their freedom while controlling their […]
discourses of the present. An analysis of the social imaginary contemporary
In recent years, there have been numerous attempts to interpret the derived social, political and cultural of the West from the social sciences. However, it has not been so frequent address this analysis from the production and the construction of the discourses of the great factories of meaning, which not only serve to legitimize the […]
housing in Spain in the XXI century
Housing in Spain in the XXI century Several authors Cáritas Española Editores and Fundación FOESSA, 2013 This number of “Studies Collection” of Foessa offers a reflection on how it has developed housing in Spain since the beginning of the XXI century, with the introduction of data, analysis and proposals, which will enable us to […]
The students and democracy. Reinventing May ‘ 68
The students and democracy. Reinventing May ‘ 68, the last book of the sociologist Fernando Gil Villa is stirring a lot of interest given the circumstances related to the student movements in Spain and in countries such as Mexico or China. It is necessary that students are made to echo the cry of those who […]
The foundations of the sociology of Norbert Elias
The book of Jesus Romero Moñivas presents the most complete introduction in Spain the thought of Norbert Elias, “the prophet” in the historical sociology and the process of civilization. It is divided into three major parts: the first brings together the essentials metasociológicos of the project sociological Elias. The second focuses on the historical foundations, […]
The Outraged. The rescue of the policy.
The sociologist Marcos Roitman presents his book “The indignados. The rescue policy” in the University Complutense Source: TerceraInformación. By Felix Povedano Mínguez and Rubén G. Herrera (21-04-2012) . Any line of debate and analysis about a phenomenon so hugely wide as the 15M, the movement of “the indignados”, the “spanish revolution”, or as we […]
Why is the twilight zone so good?
Why is the twilight zone so good? Perhaps the most important element of The Twilight Zone is that each episode turns on an essential truth about humanity. People can be prideful or judgmental, but that comes with a cost. Awareness is good, but paranoia is destructive. That’s just a little bit of introspection, courtesy of […]
What is an addled egg?
What is an addled egg? addled (comparative more addled, superlative most addled) (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo. Confused; mixed up. (obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren. Can egg become addled? ‘If a bird keeps leaving her eggs and only pops in for a quick visit from time to time, the eggs […]