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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]

In Cuba, the treatment of vulnerabilities in the population takes on a new tone in the current conditions. To address this social phenomenon, it is necessary to implement a methodological tool of proven effectiveness worldwide, such as the multidimensional measurement of poverty. This paper aims to explain the characteristics of multidimensional poverty measurement as a tool for improving government attention to vulnerabilities from public policies. The proposal of an Observatory as a way to achieve this task. Among the results of the work are: the elaboration of an instrument for the registration of socioeconomic information in the homes of the municipality, the formation of capacities in institutions and the municipal government, the development of a mobile application and a computer software for capturing, transmission, processing and dissemination of data collected at home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Universidad de Oriente, since its foundation in 1947 in the East of Cuba, with particular characteristics that were due to the historical context in which an educational process began that was distinguished from the one that already existed in Havana, printed and has represented a model of education that gathers a founding history and a set of figures that represent it. 75 years after its foundation, this paper has the fundamental objective of analyzing the particularities of the foundation process and development of the Department of Marxism-Leninism of the Universidad de Oriente (provision of services). A journey is made from the foundation of said department in the 1973- 1974 academic year, to its current conformation, going through some of the debates that are held about Marxism today. For its development, it is based on a bibliographical search and the methods: inductive, deductive and historical-logical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the ending of the XVIII century, there are in Cuba a distinguished group of People with a great monetary power and interested in culture. Colonial authorities don't feel safe with this people who has something in common: they are afro-descendant. This s the main argument for create a politic oppression designed for destroy this economic elite. This was created against the colonial system and they were involved in polemic actions like La Escalera Conspiracy in 1844. But colonial authorities just can pull down their economic power, not their ideas. With this paper, from the view of the oppression against black people, we want to give light about the resistance and the educational level that black Cubans reach in the most significant time within the process of creation of the whole Cuban identity between 1844 and 1898. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The so-called hegemonic model of masculinity constitutes a risk factor. It is a multiconditioned phenomenon, but every time it's highlighted the role of personality's socialization. In this way, the higher educational levels are called to perform a primordial function through its substantive process. The purpose of this paper is: Characterize the treatment of this subject in the experiences of some Cuban universities. An integrated analysis was made of the concepts: masculinities and substantive process of high education, expressed in a group of indicators distributed per each one of these concepts. As theoretical methods of research were used: the analytical synthetic, the transit from the abstract to the concrete, the inductive-deductive and the historicallogical. In an empirical level, the study of documents. The conclusions make reference to the developments and challenges within Cuban high education about the treatment of the researched topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the process of Antonio Maceo's political leadership formation in the Great War, which began before October 10, 1868, when he led a conspiracy group in Majaguabo that would later become the Majaguabo Section within the Cuba Division of the Liberator Army. It is shown that in the first four years there is little political activity of Maceo, however his presence in transcendental events of the Revolution allow him to assimilate the experiences that, later, will serve as the basis for the conformation of a political thought and the performance of a leadership from the most radical positions of the mambisado. The Baraguá Protest is then the highest point of that thought and its political leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the present paper consists on exposing basic concepts that propitiate the understanding and they facilitate the practical to the consolidation of the socialism in Cuba, as only alternative possible of development and freedom, in the measure that explains to you this as universal phenomenon, whose construction model is diverse, given the necessity to adjust the strategies, political, administration systems, etc., to the circumstances space-storms. The thesis is based with respect to that any country that seeks to build a fair and prosperous society can avoid the historical period of the transition from the capitalism to the socialism, stage whose essential content consists on a complex process of conformation of the identity producer-proprietor in an unknown scale until then in Cuba, with the active participation of the State in the conduction of all the processes, I don't eat owner, if not in its representative character and guarantor of the interests of the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims at revealing the place of the development of civic competences in the citizen's formative dynamics with higher education. The paper is part of the results of the theoretical research carried out by the authors about the civic formation of the university students. The understanding of the civic formation as a process developer of competences for the sociotransformation, the determination of the civic competences that are sought to develop in the Cuban youths with university education, as well as the precision of their functions and concretion ways are important moments of the present valuation. The classification of the basic civic competences and the definition of the sociotransforming competence as the integration of all of them contribute to the upgrading of inadequacies present in the theoretical referents on the topic and in the educational practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has experienced of Santiago de Cuba an increase in social indiscipline at all levels in recent years, showing a higher incidence in the communities; important scenery for the historical development of our nation, as a strategic factor and tactical element of our social project. In this sense, this paper aims to: assess the forms of organization of preventive practices to this problem at the Community context to propose actions aimed at reducing the difficulties in this direction. It is concluded specifying the actions not very effective in dealing with this problem by subjects that make up the social prevention system at this level and the need to use mechanism of Socialization and more efficient interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the decade of 1940s, Cuba had an increase in action groups. These organizations gathered former fighters against Machado regime, and ex soldiers from the Spanish Civil War, and Second World War. Under the term of revolutionary, during the Auténtico leadership, they became in battle front against the opposition, took benefits from the corruption of public officials and they was engaged in sanguinary internecine struggles. This paper aims to analize action groups, from the premise that its existence was not only a product of its inmediate sociopolitics circumstances, but also it is related with the consagration of insurrectional idealistics as a base of cuban political culture of burgeois republic. Also, the article propose an approach to classify action groups, taking into account its composition, methods, financing ways, relationship with the government, and ideological perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper the characteristics of the design and contents of the provincial diploma imparted to cadres of the municipal structures of the education sector are socialized in order to develop their managerial capacities and the effective change of the system of work that at that level of direction is executed. It presents the main topics addressed from the learning needs diagnosed and the theoretical and practical contributions made by a group of researchers from the Universidad de Oriente. The most relevant results are obtained, based on the formative transformations achieved in the integral culture of management and the managerial performance by the participants of the diploma course, in the municipalities of Santiago de Cuaba, II Frente, San Luis and Songo-La Maya. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frank País García raises as a symbol of Santiago de Cuba. his revolutionary labor allows him to trascend as a national historical figure with a great impact on his generation. This paper relays on referencies and testimonies of some of País García's contemporary people. Although he died Young, he left Deep ethic conceptions beneath his revolutionary work: modesty, sensibility, courage, education, a firm carácter, great sense of discipline and organization; all cualities that new generations should assume. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study on the future of the Cuban cultural thought of the Republic is of vital importance for the understanding of their essences into the national culture. This paper aims to make a critical- descriptive analysis of the book: The Cuban Cultural Thought in the Republic. ¿Art Theory in the Caribbean? From the young Cuban researcher Yaneidys Arencibia Coloma. The work proposes the redefinition of the Republican cultural thought from a paradigmatic analysis of titles within the work of Fernando Ortiz, Jorge Mañach, Juan Marinello, Alejo Carpentier and Jose Lezama written between 1923 and 1961. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the different cultural consumptions of young people, the musical consumption is one of the most trascendent. This is the topic of the following paper, which main proposal lies on the constant presence of musical sounds in youth daily life. Leisure, relaxation, sensation of company and moods are transmitted by music. Besides, other cultural productions, artistic or not, such as, audiovisual materials are blended with musical products and take high places on people's preferences. This research i based on the theoretical frameworks of consumption and youth. The narrow communion of quantitative and qualitative methodologies has allowed to articulate it and get an interpretative criteria about the musical consumption process, in which it has been important the consideration of the sound singularity and its influence in the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the knowledge society and information sciences face new social challenges, including the need for a more humanistic vision committed to its current context, going beyond the traditional academic and research processes. In the Cuban revolutionary practice, authentic source where theory is enriched, speaking of an update of the economic model, but no debate on political economy, nor taken into account in the analyzes. However, it is argued that positive outcomes are expected from the ideology where the economy is the locomotive and guide that process. This paper is an approach to the problem and the exposure of a number of elements that must be taken into account when talking about teaching and research of political economy and social science and its place in the construction of a prosperous socialism and sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preventive work is a determining factor in the personality development of adolescents and young people and a way for the formation of the new man. This paper refers to different concepts related to prevention from a social approach. It reflects on the current situation and trends in Cuba and other countries, we evaluate the preventive role of the School and the Family and its influence on youth behavior. Besides the different levels of prevention as well as the ground for their work and the principles to betaken into account for the implementation of preventive actions are exposed. The theme promotes discussion of everyday life in the social context in which we operate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper the antecedents of the current process of civic formation in the higher education centers in the colonial and neocolonial stage of our national history are revealed. In both prerevolutionary stages it is confirmed as a tendency the confrontation among conceptions and educational practices of civic formation methodologically opposed and due to their classist and political content, as expression of the contradictory development of the sociopolitical life of the country. These experiences constitute, without doubts, referential antecedents for the new citizen's formative process that emerges with the revolutionary changes starting from 1959. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing production of digital educational materials has encouraged the emergence in recent years of repositories that concentrate valuable resources for teachers, students and educational institutions in general, well as the importance of using these repositories in teaching and learning. At present projects Learning Object Repositories (ROA) has been increasing, which is why this paper addresses the issue of ROA and its use in the University of the East, for its development is a review of the concepts basic Learning Objects, since no one could speak of the ROA without mentioning these object types and then state why the use of this at the University of the East and the strategy for its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to propose a model of external evaluation of investments in tourism with a focus on process and sustainability, since today it is a requirement for the development of tourist destinations to improve the decision making process that will lead to the approval of investments. The relevant aspect of this proposal is the integration of three processes that in theory and practice they usually appeared in separated form: the external evaluation ex-before, while (investment) and ex-post, as well as the system of tools and techniques used for the evaluation. The model was designed based on the study of different models presented in the literature studied, the consultation to experts in the field, as well as the experience gained by the authors in the research process in Cuba and Cape Verde. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]