Photography has been an object of study privileged that contributed to the sociology of culture and served to deepen the conceptual perspective of the cultural models. An introduction to three authors essential evidence of the intrinsic value of the images as a unique means of sociological analysis. . Author: Hugo José Suárez Source: maestriadicom.org Original […]
are We free to choose our religion?
Source: Amazing. By Alfonso Jiménez Sánchez (02/04/2012) . Does the religion we profess, and the spirituality that we have, are a cultural creation passed down from generation to generation, or our genes make us as we are? A concept commonly accepted by most is that we are determined by genes belonging to one group within […]
Are solitary connected. Conference of Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman. Conference: what future for the solidarity? in Madrid, 15 October 2011. By Ruben Crespo. November 1, 2011. Last Saturday, October 15, Madrid had the great privilege of receiving the visit of one of the social thinkers globally recognized, Zygmunt Bauman: sociologist, philosopher, emeritus professor at the University of Leeds and University of […]
Space Mapper
Space Mapper is an ‘app’ analyzes the social inequality linked to the mobility in large cities. The places that he frequents an urbanite, the streets that runs through and the type of transportation that you use can vary in function of the social stratum to which it belongs. A mobile application developed by […]
Subversion of feminist economics. Amaia Pérez Orozco
The policy response to the bursting financial has become to impose the priority of markets over the life. Without a doubt, their support continues to be privatized, invisibilizado, feminized. From the discussion on feminist economics, this book details the foundation of a system unfair and unworkable, founded in the division of sexual labour, and the […]
An approach to the neuroeducación. Francisco Mora
Although from the traditional paradigms of sociology to any approach to explain the social behavior of human that take the prefixes “bio” or “neuro-” tend to raise suspicions, even among the most culturalistas not even be granted a minimum of interest, in this weblog we consider with special attention the approaches, naturalists in the social […]
A critique of certain uses of language when talking about immigration
By Patricia Rivero . Long time ago, many institutions and organizations are concerned by the use of language around gender. There are expressions (spoken or written) that have historically positioned women in an inferior position to male domination. We have several examples of agencies working in this task: observatories of equality, research groups in universities, […]
A crossroads for the European Union
By Rafael Sunday | Student of Political Science at the UNED When Jean Monnet proposed, in 1950, an agreement (CECA) on the production and trade of coal and steel (basic raw materials for the war industry), it does so for a reason originally very human: to prevent violence and war, and return to ravage the […]
A critical view of liberalism
It is not smart to make responsible to a particular ideology of the period of current crisis, relying exclusively on perceptions or surface in sentimentality inoperative. I intend that the reader of these lines can make a reflection own on certain suggestions made from the field to a liberal, that beyond my own opinion, they […]
political Uses of the language. A speech paradoxical
To pretend that the analysis of public discourse can only be at the service of the dominated groups, and that their researchers are alienated necessarily with these or with the dissenters of the dominant groups, supposed to ignore the dimension applied in this discipline [the language] that explains, precisely, the existence of strategies of abuse […]