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The recurrent changes that we are experiencing nowadays indicates that we are immerse in the XXI century, which means that we are facing a globalized society that requires an ethical, critical and aware individual capable to face the different problems that afflict their communities or country of residence. That is why talking about linking ethical values with university responsibility is necessary, considering that the vast Latin America must educate, not only and individual trained to carry out and activity in a certain discipline of knowledge, but also that he is responsible professional with the institution that formed him, as well as with the environmental, ecological, moral and social elements. This paper aims to describe the different definitions of University Social Responsibility (RSU) talking into account characteristics such as: 1.- Impact of this in the Globalized Society 2.-Emergence of the RSU concept, based on the laws that gave rise to it, 3.- Differences between Corporate Social Responsibility (RSE) and University Social Responsibility, 4.-Ethical values and their involvement with University Social Responsibility [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to propose the existence of a late-capitalist code able to colonize individuals and communities' sense of belonging. That is made claiming individual as sovereign and owner of his/her psychological states and the aesthetization of other's misery as an insubstantial consumption. Rejecting own and other's vulnerability is paradoxically proposed as a way to socialize individuals and groups. At the same time this principle makes fragile political choices on the common future for citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is on the “resistance to change" facing organizations in the West Central Region (WCR), defined here as Knowledge Needs (NC), which hinder their internal performance and eventual development and that of the region, given the conditions that are imposed by the neoliberal process of globalization. These were identified in 60 research papers from the National Reality Seminars which were held at the University of Costa Rica West headquarters for over seven years. The analysis of each project allowed establishing that, of the 8 possible KN, the priority is in knowing: how to eliminate obstacles for efficient work, how to better include and satisfy people´s needs, how to take advantage of abilities and competences for group work, and how to bring forward a unified strategy. It is argued that, in spite of the importance for organizational development, the KN oriented know how to improve the way people identify with the objectives from the organization identified in only one case, and seeking to establish how KN foster new forms of leadership, not found in any of the research projects analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper refers to some landmarks to consider in university training programs, with the aim to adopt a wide point of view by reflecting on experience, knowledge and learning, including the search for comprehending the relations of our lives and of people around the world. Furthermore, it refers to local experience in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. The elaboration of a norm to rule professionals in residence is promoted based on their evaluation, favoring deep changes, such as actions between sectors, organization and net membership and the first level priority on health and inter discipline. The residences of health care professionals, as educational resource to train citizens and critical professionals prepared for a globalized world, is part of the transforming process in health care, which could help to give priority to this value in all policies. Bioethics, as applied ethics, provides its method and lays the foundation for justice in the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper underlines the returning interest to the importance of regional studies after a period of stagnation during the last decades of the XXth century. Moreover, there are the questions related to the new geopolitical condition brought about by the globalization process and the creation of spatial webs and a-geographic links. At present, we have again the regionalization issue as part of our agenda in the land management processes, and thus, it is very alive among politicians, especially in the Less Developed countries. There is trust that the territorial changes should lead to the bettering of the political, economic, and social system of each country. However, this regional interest is not always backed by a deep knowledge of the basic theory of the «conceptual framework» to practice it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper defends the necessity to propitiate a change in the teaching and researching practices of the Sociology, acquiring a global perspective in the study of the society. First, it is examined the way in which Sociology was born, in the socio-political context of the modernity, what determined the implicit assumption of the methodological nationalism as epistemological background. Second, it is shown how at the present time, globalization is propitiating the emergence of transnationals phenomena and problems that drain the validity of the methodological nationalism as epistemological background of the Sociology. The distortions and bias produced by the lack of conscience of the exhaustion of the methodological nationalism are shown with some comments about the phenomena of transnational migrations and global inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization has evidenced the necessity to question the «methodological nationalism» as fundamental assumption of the first modernity. This question breaks the assumption that the contours of the society coincide with those of the nation-state, and it supposes an epistemological challenge for the Sociology that adopted an outline of classification of the social space that could be denominated, from its birth, state-society isomorphism. In this paper we carry out some considerations on the epistemological and methodological challenges that the international migrations suppose for the Sociology and the main practices of social empirical research that generally drag inertias and epistemological assumptions anchored in the features of the societies of the first modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]