What does it mean when someone is tempered? In addition to describing a tendency to anger, temper can also refer to one’s mood in general; if you use the word in this sense, you might describe someone’s temper as “angry” or “mild.” Temper can also be used as a verb meaning “to restrain.” If you […]
Media Sociology Channel-UNED
Through the Channel-UNED, the CEMAV (Center of Audiovisual Media of the national distance education university) offers an extensive library of TV programs, radio programs, teleactos, news, etc., A wide collection of educational resources classified in different areas of knowledge. In the area of Sociology we can find up to now more than 740 audiovisual resources […]
Roundtable discussion: “The office of sociólog@” (AMS). Delivery of Prize
organic Metaphors of the urban. Conference of Luis Castro
In January 2008, held in Seville, the International Conference The Living City with the aim of reflecting on the recovery of the city on the basis of the demands of sustainability and participation characteristics of a society before the needs of the TWENTY-first century. Luis Castro Nogueira was a guest speaker on the Table in […]
Metaphors we think. On science, democracy and other powerful works of fiction
Metaphors we think. On science, democracy and other powerful fictions Emmánuel Lizcano Fernandez Editions Under Zero/Traficantes de Sueños. Madrid, 2006 under a free license Creative Commons 2.1 Review Brilliant and provocative Emmánuel Lizcano returns with this text to your territory: the imaginary and metaphors. And it does, again, of a brilliant and thought provoking. In […]
Methodology of social research. Innovative techniques and applications
Methodology of social research. Innovative techniques and their applications is a book coordinated by Millán Arroyo Menéndez and Igor Sádaba Rodríguez1 and published in Editorial Synthesis. This is an advanced manual on methodology and applications, carefully selected for their character emerging, innovative, or by frequency of use in empirical research. The work takes particular account […]
Methodology of the social sciences
Second, Revised Edition Our dilemmas methodological define us: “God –point to Charles Lave and James March– has decided to leave the easy problems to the physicists”.1 What the authors want to say with this provocative comment is not that it is easy to practice the physical, but the results in this area immediately recognized. The […]
Michael Burawoy: “rethinking the meaning of the public university”
Burawoy argues that, at the global level, the university seems to have “ceased to be a public good to becoming a private good that should be financed to himself,” so that it loses legitimacy. Valued as “unique in the world” to the public system in argentina. ————- Interview with Michael Burawoy, President, ISA (International Sociological […]
What does Spoliarium depicts?
What does Spoliarium depicts? The Spoliarium is usually interpreted as a visual metaphor/representation of the suffering the Filipino people experienced during the Spanish colonial period. This has become the unthinking interpretation of most Filipinos when faced with the painting, without their own sense of understanding. Why is Juan Luna considered a hero? Because of his […]
What is uppercase example?
What is uppercase example? Alternatively referred to as caps and capital, and sometimes abbreviated as UC, uppercase is a typeface of larger characters. For example, typing a, b, and c shows lowercase, and typing A, B, and C shows uppercase. What does capitalization mean? Capitalization is an accounting method in which a cost is included […]