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The evolving media ecosystem underscores the pressing need for media literacy within the population. Numerous academic research initiatives typically focus on competencies such as mobile device management and the identification of fake news on social networks, among others. This paper seeks to uncover how academic research tackles advertising literacy, a facet of media literacy that promotes the development of critical consumers. Advertising literacy is increasingly recognised as a crucial competency in today's world, given the ubiquity of advertising messages and their potential to influence purchasing decisions, worldviews, and cultural perceptions. A systematic review was conducted, drawing on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, of articles on the topic published in Social Science academic journals indexed in Scopus. Significant findings suggest that advertising literacy has been a subject of analysis for over three decades, and that journals publishing on this topic, along with the affiliations of authors, are predominantly based in Europe and the United States. Additionally, it was observed that applied research, especially surveys and experiments, has superseded theoretical research in the analysis of this subject. The studies practical implications, alongside their theoretical contributions, are noteworthy. The conclusion drawn suggests that advertising literacy is a research area with substantial growth potential, warranting the attention of the educational and media industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The use of active learning methodologies, such as the Flipped Classroom, is being applied more and more frequently in various areas of knowledge, obtaining good results. In the teaching of Social Sciences, these methodologies can help to combat the demotivation sometimes experienced by students. This paper presents and analyzes a didactic intervention for the implementation of the Flipped Classroom in Primary Education, to teach Social Sciences. Method: The didactic intervention designed has consisted of the creation of seven videos to develop the didactic unit “Revolution and restoration”” to develop this subject through the Flipped Classroom methodology. The intervention was carried out on a sample of 76 students, divided into three groups/classes. To analyse the results of the intervention, academic results, participation in the activities and the students’ evaluation of the intervention were taken into account. Results: The results obtained show an improvement in the academic performance of the students, who obtain an average of 1 point in their classifications, compared to the didactic units in which the methodology is not applied. It also shows an increase in motivation and a greater and better use of ICT tools. Conclusions: The analysis carried out allows us to conclude that the application of this methodology generates an impact of improved academic results, and in turn, encourages motivation and creativity in the students participating in the intervention, turning the learning of this subject into a more dynamic and motivating process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science as an object of knowledge has been a central concern of the social sciences since the first decades of the 20th century. However, the object itself is neither static nor unchanging, and has been transformed over time. In recent decades, the innovative approach of gender studies has gained considerable ground in the social studies of science. While some of them have paid attention to the relations of the professional field with the family sphere and have investigated the ways in which structural factors of the life course play an important role in research careers, there are still few theoretical and empirical contributions that think of science as productive work highly articulated with social reproduction. Although this axis of enquiry is still incipient in social studies of science, it is consolidated within the social sciences hand in hand with labour studies and feminist economics. Within the framework of the important contributions made, this paper seeks to review the existing literature and a conceptual approach to the understanding of scientific work and its articulations with reproductive work, taking gender as a category of analysis. The paper is organised in four parts: in the first section we will review the critiques of the concept of work inherited from modernity and we will focus on thinking of science as work with specificities; in the second section we will address the processes of social reproduction in terms of the articulation of spheres; in the third section we will consider the study of gender and science; in the fourth section, we will describe the way in which this conceptual proposal operates in the empirical study carried out; finally, we will present a systematisation of the concepts developed throughout the paper and a conceptual approach to their approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The widespread use of ICTs converges in today's schools with the commitment to competencybased learning. In the social sciences, this innovative approach materialises in the concept of historical thinking, as well as through the skills of historical comprehension. This paper seeks to integrate both elements in a research with high school students in which, using a didactic proposal where ICT constitutes the principal axis, the levels of historical thinking acquired are evaluated. The results show that an adequate use of these tools favours the approach of complex historical problems and corroborate that students who are familiar with their use are better prepared to do so. Although there are still difficulties in the competent learning of History, the results of the International Baccalaureate students stand out, confirming that the knowledge necessary for the formation of historical thinking consist of cognitive skills that students can acquire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the implications for the social sciences of online crimes, specifically fraud and pedophilia in Ecuador. The methodology used is justified in the conception of systematized reviews, using the analytical framework of systematized reviews in Human and Social Sciences. Databases such as Google Scholar, SCOPUS, Web of Science (WOS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), among others, were used. The conclusions point to the need to increase research on these crimes from the social sciences, the application of the phenomenological approach, the investigation of myths and beliefs about these phenomena, the promotion of public policies and the promotion of interdisciplinarity with other behavioral sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares publication practices among social scientists from northeastern Mexico who were trained within the country or abroad. It focus critically on late regional scientific development (2000-2020) under the influence of a national academic evaluation scheme strongly aligned to the global publication system. A quantitative analysis was carried out on a selection of self-reported scientific production by a sample of researchers. It was found that both profiles have assimilated the hegemonic publication criteria. Also, that those trained abroad generally have better performances (some linked to their social capital). But, nonetheless, regional collaborations that could contribute to a sustainable local scientific practice are moderately more frequent in locally trained researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a growing interest in the field of social sciences in the study of topics related to the so-called gig economy or platform economy and, among them, in the figure of the rider-a term that refers to the home delivery workers employed through digital platforms. In these platforms, the work of the riders is organized from algorithmic management logics, a mediation in which the panoptic quality of their forms of control and governmentality has tended to be emphasized. In contrast to these frameworks, this paper presents a theoretical-methodological approach that emphasizes the co-constitution-in an open agency- of the rider and the application, to ethnographically approach the everyday labor practices of riders. In the interest of exploring how algorithmic mediation functions in the diversity of riders' experiences, we analyze the coordination tasks responsible for producing the shared space-time geography and the flexible control strategies that mediate the application. The text describes how the algorithm generates a kind of scaffolding that defines directive spatiotemporalities in the riders' operations, within which the deliverers extend the landscape of calculability to those elements that the algorithm cannot consider and to those others that the rider must incorporate in order to make his activity compatible with the algorithmic logic. This article presents the initial results of an ethnography carried out in Madrid since September 2021 with riders from several of the main digital home delivery platforms: Glovo, Uber Eats, and Getir . Along with the fieldwork with riders, we interviewed four technologists in urban logistics. The results show that salaried riders have a less intense experience of the directive chronography of the algorithm, showing how autonomy is not necessarily equivalent to the riders' capability to choose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the relationship between Marxism and social sciences in Estudios Marxistas. Revista colombiana de ciencias sociales, published between 1969 and 1987 by a group of intellectuals of the Communist Party. The central argument argues that the appearance of this publication, its production dynamics, its interpretation of Marxism and social research, as well as the debates it generated, can be explained by the need of this group of intellectuals to dispute the nascent academic field, where intellectual nuclei of the "new left" had great influence. In order to develop this argument, the paper is structured in four parts. The first reconstructs the political and intellectual context in which Estudios Marxistas emerged and examines the project it outlined. The second describes the dynamics of its scientific production. The third part studies some of the uses that the research presented therein made of the Marxist tradition. The fourth part analyzes the critique of the Estudios Marxistas editorial group of the "new history" current. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to study some questions that we consider fundamental about the methodological position of Jerome Bruner in relation to research, production and communication of knowledge in the field of Psychology and its interrelations with other social sciences, based on the consideration of human phenomena as inherently psychological, social, cultural and historical. For this purpose, we resorted to an analytical-comparative hermeneutic method taking as a documentary basis articles and books written by the author in the period between 1960 - 2015. In these texts we believe we find his most important critical elaborations on positivism and his methodological proposal of overcoming it, which here, we only attempt a first approximation. It is an interpretation, a recapitulation and a rewriting of some of the knowledge bequeathed by Bruner on how to approach "the proper study of man" (Bruner, 1991) in order to continue along the path taken under the challenge that he himself proposed to us: to go beyond the information received. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding Open Access and Open Science as concrete possibilities to diversify and make visible the sciences of the Global South, break inequalities and promote collaborative production of knowledge, in this paper we present the results of a research on academic evaluation policies in the group of CLACSO Centers in Venezuela. The research was developed through the application of a survey and 11 interviews as data collection instruments, to heads of centers and networks in Venezuela, and the subsequent systematization of the responses to build a proposal for a collective statement for the development and implementation of a fair, equitable and democratic science. Of the 64 centers, 44 participated in the survey. Among the main results we found that, despite not having an explicit evaluation system, the centers consulted point to the need for the development of a fairer science, emphasizing a model of science that is very different from the modern hegemonic scientific system and traditional evaluations. The fact that most centers do not have precise evaluation mechanisms creates an opportunity to promote a critical reflection on which mechanisms can contribute to the creation of a more democratic science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the purpose of laying the foundations for a critique of sociological reason and making a contribution to shedding light on the relationship between Marxism and sociology, in this paper a set of problematic points of Esteban Torres' La gran transformación de la sociología is addressed. The analysis is divided into three moments. First, the idea of sociology that is used by the author is criticized, challenging by that the bases or foundations of Torres' broader intellectual work plan. In a second step, the conception of Marxism that is defended by the Cordovan academic is assessed, identifying the existing differences between the contribution of Capital's author and the aforementioned social science. As a corollary of both operations, some conclusions are drawn, stating that what must to be done is not to transform sociology but to abandon it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we analyze, from the perspective of Latin America, two projects that advocate to open the sciences: the first was introduced by Wallerstein in the Report of the Gulbenkian Commission; the second is the open science project, more recently known since the approval of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021). In the first part, we revisit the program proposed by Wallerstein to "open the social sciences" and their main pillars. Next, we link this project with the concept of citizen science, the FAIR and CARE principles, and the need to make advances in participatory science practices with informational justice. Then, we analyze the Latin American route of open science and the collaborative infrastructure that has been in development since the 1950s. We analyze the intellectual, institutional and political conditions our region has to contend with to tread a path of our own in open science and to which extent social sciences participate in the process, as well as to which extent are they affected and/or promoted by it. Finally, we discuss the critical role that evaluation systems in the region have in producing a transformation of the magnitude possible in open science, without subordinating the communities that participate in the co-production of open knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of the present paper is to systematize the contributions of more than 15 15 years teamwork around the understanding of communication as a field of complex inter and transdisciplinary reflections, built on the research practice of the Center for Cuban and Caribbean Social Studies “Dr. José A. Portuondo ”, from the Universidad de Oriente (Cuba). To systematize the results, a large volume of data contained in 49 undergraduated and postgraduated investigations, 60 scientific articles, 8 books, 15 book chapters, as well as the empirical experience accumulated in dozens of communities, cultural projects, social institutions was analyzed., local governments, unions, companies, scientific events among others, where research results have been socialized and introduced. A complex conception of communication of a socio-anthropological and micro-cultural nature is proposed, which is already located in the analysis of the media, cultural management, socio-cultural relations, politics and local development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the significance and the challenges of various decolonized practices in research and in social science training methods in Mexico and, particularly, in Chiapas, based on a Latin American approach to the field of studies conducted by intellectuals and activists involved in social movement struggles. We analyze different forms of intercultural dialogues used in decolonizing research in terms of social, ethnic and gender relationships, according to the contexts and the knowledge production of popular and indigenous movements facing politics, education and epistemic racism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the socio-spatial ethnography as method for the study on the historical territorialities of native peoples in the Americas. This work was developed between 2018 and 2021 into master's degree dissertation in Human Geography at El Colegio de Michoacán, as a part of qualitative research carried out on Territorialities of the Maleku native people in Costa Rica (1860-2020). The Maleku inhabit a territory demarcated by the government in 1976, that encompasses only 2934 hectares in the middle basin of Frío River, which defines the core of their ancestral territory. The lands, lagoons and rivers in this territory are sacred places, the Maleku have been dispossessed of them since the beginning of colonization in 1860. The socio-spatial ethnography on Maleku territorialities follows different critical methods of the Social Science. It was established intercultural dialogues with the community, based on ethical commitments. For this purpose, qualitative research techniques were implemented, such as participant observation and ethnographic dialogues with Maleku collaborators. Also, documentary-historical reviews were implemented as well as semi-structured interviews with expert non-indigenous collaborators. Further, quantitative methods were applied to analyse demographic, cadastre registry and agrarian data with geographic information on Maleku territorialities. Diverse cartographic products were obtained because of the analysis of unpublished territorial data, which allowed to conclusions on the socio-spatial incidence of land tenure and territorial rights to Maleku people by the Costa Rican government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we will be analyzing, from social studies with a gender perspective, two court decisions about violence against women that were recently made in Neuquén, Argentina. The guiding purpose of this paper is to highlight the tensions -between tensions and resistancesthat exist in the institutions and between the public sector (Court) and private sector (Lawyers) when interacting as agents of justice, in judicialized cases where the victims are women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the concept of "relationship quality" as a theoretical category of marketing. For this purpose, the search of the concept in the Scopus database is carried out, selecting 808 research papers, corresponding to three research areas: Business, Management and Accounting; Social Sciences and Econometric, Economic and Finance that incorporate this concept. Two important analysis were carried out using contemporary methods of bibliographic cartography through VOSviewer software: cocitation analysis of 122 journals and co-occurrence analysis of 12638 terms used in titles and abstracts of documents with textual mining methodology. The results show a growing interest in the concept, through 7 clear lines of research, and the need for future research that relates the concept to other complementary constructs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are multiple lines of research on this subject, such as issues related to social responsibility, regulation, transparency, plurality, effects on citizenship or regulatory framework, among other issues to be taken into account in a new television, which today has digital platforms for broadcasting and reception. This research analysed, from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, the articles with the greatest impact on the Web of Science, focusing on television quality. We have worked with a total of 155 scientific papers cited on 50 occasions. All these papers belong to the category of Social Sciences or Humanities. The impact on technical issues, on the technological process, is the main conclusion of this study, in which the aspects linked to the transmission of healthy habits represent most of what can be considered an analysis of the effects of the television media. This approach represents a very limited vision. Similarly, the innovations allowed by the Internet are investigated from a technical point of view of usability and interactivity, rather than from the assessment of the transformation of the process and its influence on citizenship. Other issues of greater social importance, such as the role of television and its social responsibility, are relegated to a minority presence and its dissemination in academic environments of lower impact. In many cases, these are realities circumscribed to a specific country, as in the case of the regulatory framework. Finally, the general conclusion of the research indicates that television quality is a multifaceted theme that must be analyzed and its impact evaluated from multiple approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the close relationship between the social sciences and the health sciences. From a general point of view, both disciplines seem to have followed a parallel path and without points of intersection; However, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the close relationship that science has to explain and confront the complex and multidimensional reality that is, at the same time, eco-biopsychosocial. This reality requires having researchers, professionals and theorists who see the need to interpret the world within complexity, from multidisciplinary approaches, which makes it possible to verify the particularities of each community. Therefore, an effort is necessary to reinterpret the training of health and social science professionals, carrying out joint work, leading to success in working with the communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the current paper is developed regarding the issue of the relationship between education and ict (information and communication technologies). It is the result of a research process regarding the following question: what are the forms of relationship between technology and face-to-face education at the secondary level in the ei (educational institution) inem (Instituto de Educación Media Diversificada) Jorge Isaacs de Cali? This question arises from the need to develop pedagogical mediation processes using ict in the classroom. In methodological terms, various learning objects are implemented in the teaching framework of the curriculum of the subject of social sciences for eighth grade, constantly recording both their process of construction and application, as well as the interpretations of students with regard to their use, to give meaning in context to the implications that are woven around the implementation of technology in educational processes. The research proposal has used a qualitative analysis perspective based on the critical systemic approach. This analysis was carried out considering the following categories: most relevant technological instruments, pedagogical sense of the technological tool and didactic potentialities of ict. As relevant conclusions, the suggestion is that the relationship between technology and education in the learning process is expressed in terms of complementarity and constant reciprocity that promotes the development of various specific competencies in the area of social sciences through a contextualized instrumentation of digital resources and tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we briefly describe the presentations given at the workshop entitled "Political Psychology and the tension between generalization and particularity: replicability, ecological validity, sampling." After a brief reference to the discussions proposed at the meeting, we introduce an analytical reflection about the meaning of replication for social science in general and Political Psychology in particular. We reflect on the relevance but also the imperatives of replication in our discipline. Based on the presentations, we propose to advance towards more sophisticated research designs and studies within natural environments and with general populations to achieve more robust evidence. We question the "required" direction of the replication (North to South), and invite deepening the dialogue and readings between scholars from the country and the region as a possible path to begin to establish theories on our own. We also suggest the need to rethink our biases, particularly ideological and political ones, in contexts of increasing social polarization. But above all, we insist on the relevance of theoretical constructs and the defense of particularism (cultural and contextual factors) to guide the replications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims an approach to the criteria of Raúl Roa García around the question of method in social sciences, as well as the categories with which he built his apprehension of culture. The study was carried out from a hermeneutic and heuristic analysis of his main works written between 1940 and 1958 was carried out, a period where the bulk of his theoretical production was concentrated. This made it possible to determine that his conception of the culture is based on various theoretical and methodological bases, so on that it built its way of apprehending the complexity of culture and its mediations. In the debate about the appropriate method for the social sciences, Roa opts for a unitary conception that overcomes the traditional and exclusive division between natural and spiritual sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The general objective of this paper is to describe the pedagogical experience in BA in Education of the Social Sciences classes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020, within the framework of the INAES-MEC cooperation. The methodology used consists of a bibliographic review, complemented by a questionnaire on the experiences of students and teachers of the BA in Education of the Social Sciences. The pedagogical action developed within this framework consisted in the design of didactic guides and explanatory videos on the different skills and contents of the study plan of the Social Sciences Area to be provided through the Digital Portal of the Ministry of Education and Sciences for teachers of different subjects. This experience represents a significant learning space for future teachers who assumed the commitment to respond to the need of the social call, which is a characteristic of committed teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper addresses the need to respond critically to the theoretical challenges that arise from the matrix of decolonial thinking and its relation to Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectics. Methodologically, a conceptual framework has been developed to establish the possible communicating vessels between the different elaborations on decolonial thinking and Adorno's theoretical production. Bearing in mind the Castro-Gómez critique of Foucault, this approach disassociates itself from the idea that a thinker is Eurocentric on the mere basis of the locus of enunciation. This work posits that it is perfectly feasible to find an analytical exercise that allows a closer approach to Adorno's thinking. This implies a paradoxical double movement in the analysis. One is the critical study of the Adornian approach or negative dialectic from decolonial criticism, and the other is determining the possibility of tracing plexuses of concrete interpenetration between both theoretical universes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper tries to make a quick tour of the different attempts that proposed to link scientific and disciplinary knowledge. The central thesis is that there is a marked tendency in the contemporary scientific development that, without abandoning specialization, is increasing synthesis, rather than analysis. This trend has led to greater inter and transdisciplinary in the various fields of scientific knowledge, including, of curse, in political and social sciences. This essay describes the most relevant attempts at articulation or unification of the sciences raised during the last century and the present and delves in one of the most promising proposals at present, the emergence of complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Climate change is one of the main socio-environmental challenges of the current 21st century. The objective of this research is to analyze the contents about climate change proposed in the textbooks of Primary Education of Social Sciences (3rd cycle) in the Valencian Community (Spain) attending to: 1) the explanation of the phenomenon (causes and consequences); and 2) the description of the main greenhouse emissions. The results indicate that currently, textbooks project an excessively catastrophic image of climate change (increase in extreme atmospheric phenomena) and citing as error carbon dioxide (CO2) as the main effect gas greenhouse. In conclusion, the textbooks do not provide rigorous content and information from scientific papers and academic sources and the presence of stereotypes about climate change (natural disasters) is abused. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Culture is a broad concept that crosses different social sciences, especially after the cultural turn of the mid-twentieth century, before that was mainly the subject of anthropology. This paper focuses on various current theoretical principals that deal with culture and sets special emphasis on the debate on information/communication. The idea is to escape from different binary oppositions and look for complex and dialectical concepts that help us establish truly interdisciplinary debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is aimed at making a suggestion for examining social topics such as the youth-related ones from an epistemic and historical point of view. It is claimed that in the realm social sciences, reality shouldn't be taken for granted. It is also claimed that there is a need for subjects' situations to be epistemologically examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Peruvian writer and intellectual Manuel González Prada (1844-1918) was one of the initiators of positivism and anarchism in Peru, and exercised a notable influence on several Peruvian thinkers and writers of the early twentieth century, such as José Carlos Mariátegui, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, César Vallejo, Jorge Basadre and others. This paper shows González Prada's ideas on the relationship between scientific knowledge and political power, framed in a project of social and cultural emancipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to point out the relevance of Psychoanalysis for an emancipatory interpretation of Nietzsche's work. Our hypothesis is that a Freudian interpretation of Nietzsche -more or less explicit in Freud's thought- made possible a critical use of his work. That interpretation allows us to remove the Nietzsche's aristocratic, slave, political program, without discarding his most relevant contributions. In addition, it allowed us to revalue topics that had been unjustly relegated from a perspective that favored the economy among other human dimensions. For various epistemological, moral and political reasons, the fertile convergence of Marxism and Psychoanalysis overshadowed the relationships between Nietzsche and Freud, both of them critics of religion and morality. A wide range of problems of social theory can be redefined -and not only improved- under their perspective. In this paper we propose to interpret key aspects of Nietzsche's genealogy of moral through the Freudian understanding of resentment and of neurosis of civilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although photography and cities have been close companions, there has been no tradition of the study of cities based on photographic evidence in the social sciences. It is true that in recent decades, history and other disciplines have provided legitimacy to the use of images as a valid research source, and important insights have been used from philosophy and art history so as to refine appropriate methodologies in accordance with their use. However, neither in studies of contemporary cities, nor in historical studies, is it common to see the use of images to question, argue, or interpret urban realities. This paper explores the concept of the panorama -a form of representation widely disseminated as of the end of the 18th Century-, explains its adaptation to the photographic format and, through the analysis of a few exceptional testimonies registered in Mexico prior to 1910, it also reflects on the distance between the purpose of capturing a "totality" within an image and the possibilities for the researcher to interpret from them the nature, layout and shapes of cities. The paper also contributes to the abundant discussion, from a little-known format, on the photographic document and on the scientific status of truth that their creators pursued. Moreover, the methodological proposal for the use and advantages of the photographic medium is delved into within the field of social research, as is how to come to justifiable results regarding the study of urban history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the role of researchers from the social sciences and humanities as interlocutors of issues that are publicly problematized so as to enter the legislative agenda of governments. The theoretical framework is based on three axes: the question of politicized and mobile social science, the public communication of science and the public problems approach. A case study was carried out: the activity of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion in Argentina and the parliamentary treatment of the draft Law of Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy in the Chamber of Deputies. The parliamentary debate was developed in 15 public debate sessions. We investigated the arguments in favor of the project. Specifically, the focus is placed on presentations made from the social sciences and humanities. Three questions guided our research: what role did academics from the social sciences and humanities play in the debate? How many of them also made, during the debate period, some outreach activity besides their participation in the plenary? and, those who carried out dissemination efforts, did they have the support of an intermediary organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the course and situation of the political science at Jalisco, Mexico, is reviewed, as the second largest epistemic community of the country.The document is divided into three sections. In the first one, we briefly contextualize the course and discussions that Mexican political science has had at national level. In the second one, we demonstrate the path of academic pro­grams of political science in the state, both undergraduate and postgraduate studies, as well as research about political issues in Jalisco. In the third section, we ponder trends in the discipline from this part of the country using the opinions of four of their architects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analyzing the role civic and citizenship education plays in construction of learning basic rights (DBA in Spanish) in social sciences. The theoretical framework and methodology used by the team of Universidad de Antioquia were based on revision of literature, analysis of experiences and validation by focal teams of teachers and experts. This study tries to provide the students with a citizenship education from their self-recognition as actors, able to transform a society that needs political subjects contributing to social issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to expose the theoretical proposal for an art of the current interpretation that Peter Szondi elaborated in his Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics. Through the analysis of authors such as Chladenius, Meier or Schleiermacher, Szondi tries to find a reconciliation between philology and aesthetics, between procedures that aspire to a general theory of comprehension, and rules that can be adapted to the different peculiarities of each text. A proposal that, in contrast to the scientific model adopted in the human sciences of the last century, bets on the specificity of the so-called sciences of the spirit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the large field of human social sciences, demography is, probably, the most comprehensive. Nevertheless, the main aim of this issue is to advance in the knowledge that demography plays in order to find explanations and solutions to social problems. Scientific debates and published papers on demography and populations are focussed around two almost antagonist doctrines. One of them maintains a line of neutrality and tries to improve instrumental possibilities of assessment. The other one look for a line of compromise with real problems, and set the values as a priority. With this issue we pretend to underline the importance of the relationship between demography and specific socioeconomic problems to prevent them and to look for future solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper begins by defining such defining such concepts as measurement, measure, magnitude, dimension, giving examples as illustrations. Furthermore, there are mentioned several magnitudes so defined that may be identified in the wide scope of Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Human Sciences, besides those magnitudes usually known in Physical Sciences. Here are corrected some wrong concepts relating to dimensions of physical magnitudes such as Force, Plane angle, Magnetism and Entropy, The paper se calls other concepts which are often ignored in Physics textbooks and several magnitudes which are plainly ignored in teaching Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. There is made explicit the nature of Vector Space, which is endowed to magnitudes appearing in Dimensional Analysis by the two operations of inner product, and of outer composition with rational numbers (acting as exponents). An example is given which is taken from the discipline of Project Evaluation in Industrial Engineering, and which illustrate the power given by these concepts to Dimensional Analysis. Such is the case with Lord Kelvin's algorithm for deducing quantitative laws for physical phenomena, as long as for social, economic and other phenomena which are amenable to treatments by the Pi Theorem of Buckingham-Varschy - Ostrogradsky. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of alternative forms of representation has been a key issue within the social sciences for a long time, as a postmodern response to the limits of positivist science. However, its use in the field of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences is scarce, as in qualitative research. In this paper, we present an ethnography fiction story that attempts to recreate prison life, particularly that in the sports hall. It is based on data from a two‐year ethnographic study in a Spanish prison that emphasizes the meanings participants assigned to sport and physical activity. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to claim the use of ethnographic fiction as a form of representation in qualitative research. Second, to create a new story to give voice to participants and provoke reader's emotions by evoking participants' experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In other studies we have analysed to which extent scientific "peripherally" has become an increasingly complex phenomenon that is not restricted to national dynamics and cannot be explained with the concept of "academic imperialism". The World Academic System was structured in the last four decades through a triple principle of hierarchy that created segmented circuits, historically constructed at the intersection of the institution of origin, language and discipline. The so-called "mainstream" circuit was based on the distinction between internationalized scientists and researchers restricted to domestic or "marginal" circuits. In this paper, we focus on the world of social science journals in Argentina in order to deepen our insight on the disciplinar specificity of that principle of hierarchy. In the first part, we describe the circuits according with their power of "international" recognition, in order to go beyond a mere measurement of "visibility". Then, we develop an analysis of the database that we have built with the universe of Argentine journals to determine how this knowledge circulates. We observe, particularly, a strong domestic circuit, with little or none international impact, consisting of non- indexed journals published only in paper, resulting in a very restricted distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the results of a comparative study of the scientific output of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires during the years 2003, 2007 and 2010. Each year coincides with the end of a period of scientific programming at the University, and the study's objective was to determine whether any changes occurred related to the prevalent culture of scientific dissemination at the institution, mainly related to digital information and communication technologies. Quantitative procedures were applied to analyze the data recorded by the researchers themselves in their final research reports. The following aspects were examined for each year: Types of documents (journal articles, conference papers/presentations, chapters of books and books, audiovisual and electronic materials); language used; journals selected (national and international), scientific meetings (national and international in scope, with and without the publication of proceedings and languages), book publishers (university presses, commercial publishers, organizations and others) and individual or multiple authorship. Over 7 years, the comparative study did not find significant changes in the behavior of researchers from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, in relation to the dissemination of their scientific output, and continue to maintain their practices when wanting to disseminate their achievements. The conference papers represent over 50% of the preferences of teachers / researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explains the profile that teachers in high school should have in the field of humanities and social sciences according to the aims expressed by the students of a public night high school in the West of Merida. Students were asked to complete a 48-item questionnaire designed on a Likert scale with a view to measuring twelve competences obtained from the work of prestigious researches and the official Mexican documents used as a referent. This questionnaire was validated by judges, had a pilot test and a Cronbach's alpha of 0.94. It is increasingly more necessary to create job profiles, including those for the teaching profession, with a view to establishing parameters for professional development. Those profiles should detail the dimensions which the job addresses and the descriptors which adequate teaching practice should include. In the education model by competences these profiles present the attitudes, abilities and knowledge that a teacher should have. These profiles also provide guidelines to undertake accurate teacher assessment. The results were analysed with the statistical software package SPSS v.21 and frequencies, percentages and comparison of means were obtained. The interpretation especially addressed students' positive opinions regarding what teaching competence should be. The study found that all the competences were important, but not all the descriptors satisfied the students' expectations. This study also shows a list with the most popular competences for teaching: academic background, assertive communication, leadership, evaluation and educational environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of apparatus has turned in a common notion within the Human Sciences. Based on Michel Foucault's ideas, there has been an important reflection about this concept recently. This paper seeks to point out some lines of investigation that have been established by Foucault´s philosophy of the apparatus. I stress, specially, some investigations undertaken by Ian Hacking and Arnold Davidson and some works by Nikolas Rose. On the other hand, it is stated that the philosophy of apparatus is aimed at carrying out a historical ontology, that is to say, thinking about how the interaction between knowledge, technologies, institutions and humans produce certain kinds of people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with some of the major characteristics of the teaching of Scientific Research Methodology in university degree careers at UNR. An initial look at the narrative of the Curriculum is done, taking the one from Psychology as a model from Social Sciences. From the analysis of four basic dimensions observed in the documents and the words from a teacher it can be understand the complexity of the complexity of the interweaving of factors that influence the way of thinking the teaching of methodological contents in this context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose that fction is not only a false way of referring to the social reality or a ruse for the construction of imaginary worlds. On the contrary, we understand fctions as a human capacity highly productive in the construction and organization of the social world, a capacity widely disseminated in this world. We started giving an overview on some discussions in social sciences on the issue of fctionality. Aler that, we rescue the notions of "real fction" and "fctional expectations" to address the productive character of fction, with special emphasis on its temporary reference. We conclude by studying the social practice of "to act as if the fctional was real" to discuss its implications in one of the most productive uses that has had in contemporary Chile: the notion of "permanent kidnapping" proposed by Judge Guzman to challenge legal order established by 1978 Amnesty Luaw. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of methodological «recipes» and the appeal to various forms of political correctness in the study of different groups are temptations to which a large number of social scientists often embrace. In this article, we attempt to develop a critical revision of the way in which some of these common places of social research operate, based on «methodological» principles as dogmas in the abstract. In the same vein, we also describe, by appealing to research examples, frequent impostures of the «right» way that abound in academic discourses, as is sometimes the case with researchers who define themselves as «militants» when they study subaltern sectors. Consequently, in this paper some tricks are developed, as defined by the sociologist Howard Becker, who question formalities, tendencies and agreements implicit in the scientific-academic work that do not precisely stimulate creativity. The application forms that circulate in the scientific system, the «methodological» subjects, the guidelines for the evaluation of academic production and the intellectual impostures, configure a diversity of situations that often promote comfortable routines linked more to rigidity than rigor. Although this text is constructed in perspective with the Argentine case, it refers to practices that are also present in the diverse scientific traditions in the social sciences. Such approaches, guided by political correctness, often result in asymmetric assessments that sacrifice creativity because they to lie down in comfortable routines that are usually celebrated in the academic environment. On the contrary, other types of academic proposals are confronted with the censorship of «normal science», which in certain contexts are accompanied by a set of moral and ideological judgments that can dissemble creativity, open discussion of ideas and exploration of problematic empirical vacuums. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the social sciences, methodological debates contribute to the understanding of social research. This paper discusses one way of understanding the role of the investigator in relation to the approach and analysis of the object/subject of study. The objective is to question the use of the researcher's metaphor as a craftsman. This image appears in the 1950s in order to explain the creativity required by the research process and qualitative data analysis. However, the artisan's metaphor represents a deductive approximation of the researcher to the subject/object of study. On the contrary, the qualitative analysis is oriented by inductive procedures. The metaphor of the hunter after the prey is then proposed as a resource with a paradigmatic and epistemological consistency that contributes to the understanding and training in the qualitative research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The large corpus of works on migration, from different disciplines within the Social Sciences, provide data on the causes and consequences of the migration phenomenon that transcends national borders. However, it should be stated that the psychosocial, sociocultural and symbolic aspects of young immigrant children as well as their human rights have not been explored significantly neither in the past nor in present times. In regions with comprehensive immigration tradition elucidates many of the consequences of this problem, why, it becomes privileged field of sociological, anthropological, psychological and historiographical phenomenon of child experimentation sector in international migration. This preliminary work analyzes theoretical aspects on young children's migration, provides official statistics on the topic as well as the reasons and the impact of such a phenomenon. Also, this paper informs the reader on children's human rights in terms of migration policies. This work opens theoretical and methodological paths to reflect more on this vulnerable population in Guanajuato, Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the ethical issues involved in a research project undertaken by Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the participation of the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (Catalan Media Corporation, CCMA). The article analyzes the role played by researchers in professional activities of the CCMA involving information capture and processing. It examines different codes of ethics proposed by a group of Catalan universities and the international scientific community to support this project; and it then focuses on the ethical code applied to different stages of the project where the information being captured and processed is the employees' own personal data, and to the academic and professional dissemination of the project results. Finally, the article discusses how ethical guidelines are adapted to social science studies, bearing in mind this field's heavy reliance on ethical codes inherited from the natural sciences. It also presents documents attesting to the approval of the protocols described here by an independent ethics committee. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the methodological apparatus set forth by O. G. Oexle, in his mainly studies Oexle's works entitled L'historisme en débat: de Nietzsche à Kantorowicz, Krise des Historismus, Krise der Wirklichkeit, and Das Problem der Problemgeschichte. This paper emphasizes the development of Oexle's methodology, its theoretical implications and its applicability in the Latin American context. The consequences of this methodology for the social and natural sciences in contemporary academy remain of vital importance for this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the study of grammatical metaphor in Spanish, specifically in Social Science textbooks in use in Colombian secondary schools. Our main interest is to analyze, from a Systemic Functional Grammar perspective (Halliday, 1994, 2004b), the particular characteristics of ideational grammatical metaphors in Spanish and their implications for citizenship education and for learning processes. The corpus is made up of chapters about the Industrial Revolution from three eighth-grade texts. Our analysis has identified the presence of grammatical metaphors in Hallidayan terms: nominalizations of processes and qualities and the use of causal verbs in place of conjunctions. We have also identified other types of metaphor: nonergative clauses, historical present tense, and inanimate participants. The paper also stresses the importance of unpacking metaphors during the process of analysis and also during teaching and learning processes, since unpacking sheds light on information hidden in the metaphor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]