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This article is part of the study developed to analyze teaching and research as an inseparable binomial in the university scenario, especially in the development of the law career. It was assumed with a positivist approach, a descriptive research, with non-experimental, transversal and field design, considering as population 20 professors and 82 students from 3 universities of Maracaibo, applying the survey as well as the interview with a questionnaire. Data were analyzed with frequency distribution. The results reflected that teachers do not use didactic strategies that stimulate research during teaching to solve problems and contribute to the well-being of the collective, they not invite students to participate in events where scientific knowledge is disseminated so it is concluded that law professors make little use of research concentrating their activities to master classes referring to doctrines and the legal system without taking into consideration the need to develop relationship between theory and practice, then, knowledge remains on paper, in the word and does not go to action, to change, therefore, it is necessary to transform educational action and fulfill the three fundamental functions of Higher Education: teaching, research and extension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is about integration and transculturation in tutorial processes and which grew out of the direction of R. M.'s doctoral thesis. It explains the use of creative methods, such as auto-narrative to solve complex research situations. This paper starts introducing how this case of study started with the preliminary situation; it continues on presenting the problematic and the objectives to find an alternative process of tutoring. It follows explaining the theoretical perspectives adopted and the methodological description of the thesis process, including relationships and its evolution in the academic context. This finishes in some reflections and a discussion about the contribution that this report means for the field of research in arts and social sciences, and the importance it has. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper a description of sociological research on the social imaginary that has been developed in the last twenty years, they present in the first moment aspects developed in Europe, principally from the French current and the sociology in Spain; later it is approached the link with Latin America, the Iberian American connection and some open routes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]