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This paper is a product from the study of educational research disciplinary conformation in Mexico, and its relationship with the national research system's institutionalization through the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Its purpose is to identify the articulation between the theoretical and methodological nuclei that outcome from sociology with the most relevant historical events at the genesis of the Educational System of Mexico, which have stimulated the formation of the country's scientific field of education. Throughout the paper, the relation between the research paradigms, the classical and contemporary theoretical production of education's sociology and the critical events in which the national educational system was consolidated, are stablished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the results of a theoretical research on the category of social exclusion are presented, research performed from 2022 to early 2023. From a series of analysis related to the absence of a theoretical base for such category, the purpose was to identify, through document review, which theoretical background this category could be related with. The argument in this paper is that structural functionalism is an alternative for theoretical ground, because with Robert Merton was found that social exclusion is a problem addressed in his theory through the concept of anomie in his sociology of deviation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I present the importance of applying the perspective of the sociology of communication in studies about the influence of news in the sports press on the state of anxiety of high-performance athletes in the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (PURNOC). For this purpose, I did a review of research studies conducted in Puerto Rico over the last two decades (2000-2020), focusing on those conducted with objective instruments to measure anxiety in high-performance athletes and the influence of the sports press on the emotional state of them in competitive events. I found eight papers related to the literature review. Five of them are focus on sports psychology and the emotional manifestations of high-performance athletes, while three papers pay attention to the influence of the media on the emotional state of athletes. This study recognizes the need to continue conducting research in Puerto Rico aimed to evaluate the relationship between the sports media, the state of anxiety of athletes and their performance in sports. [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]

The paper deals with some fundamental problems of the subfield of social/sociological theory, particularly in our Latin American context, taking as a stimulus or pretext some of the problems raised in the book La gran transformación de la sociología, by Esteban Torres. After some initial remarks about the consequences of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic on our sociological activity, the text proceeds in three successive steps. First, some discussions are raised about the appropriate scale for sociological analysis (including a defense of middle range theorizing); then, we reflect on the temporality involved in theorizing, the challenges of social acceleration and the dead ends of "theoricism"; finally, a discussion is raised about the meaning of theorizing from the "South". The conclusions reaffirm the need to continue the debates in this field, valuing Torres' contributions but also highlighting some important differences with his proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norbert Elias is an author traditionally absent in communication studies. His relevance for this field has begun to be defended recently, an argumentative line with which this paper is also identified. The article has two interrelated aims. First, present the main dimensions of Norbert Elias' analysis on human communication. Second, critically examine several current studiesthat, in communication studies, take this author as a theoretical reference for their research. To achieve the first aim, it is analysed Theory of the Symbol, a book originally published in 1989, where Elias collects his reflections about the communicational and symbolic dimensions of human being. To achieve the second goal, the paper is focused on the concept of Communicative Figuration, recently developed according to an eliasian perspective, and currently applied in several studies devoted to the topic of mediatization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes a theoretical approach proposal for the analysis of social inequalities through the notions of socialization and subjective experience, from a comprehensive sociology and Schutz's phenomenological perspective. The intention is to emphasize the subjective dimension in the phenomenon of inequality, which refers to the naturalization that occurs through the mental categories that we use to look at and build the social world, and that results in an aspect that strongly adds to structural conditioning of this problem. In particular, it is proposed to study this phenomenon in the context of high school, since it represents a particular period of life in which teenagers appropriate identity categories and in relation to the social order in which they operate. The results, from this approach, propose to rescue the role of the educational institution in the subjective incorporation of this problem, and, with it, address school practices and their objective effects on the lives of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Food policies in Argentina have gained prominence in social policies agenda in Argentina since 1983. THe persistant problem of hunger affects the technicians and professionals who have managed and implemented food policies. The way people perceive and feel the social world regulates management practices. In order to design and implement food programs in Argentina, it is necessary to investigate people's perception of the world. This contributes to understand the connection between social policies and structures. This paper aims to identify emotions of technicians and professionals associated with the design, management and implementation of food policies. This is a qualitative study with an in-depth interviews to technicians and professionals who have managed and implemented food policies in General Pueyrredon between 1983-2020. The main results show emotions such as frustration, anger and resignation. [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]

Objective: the aim of this paper is to test a sociology of welfare; that is, two analytical tools are argued to gain an understanding of the sociological content of welfare: 1) the identification of the forms of social precariousness existing in Mexico; 2) the idea of the continuum of inequality of violence and its visibility. Methodology: in defending their theory, the authors use analytical and qualitative sociology as a methodological perspective, where classical concepts of sociology function as reflexive tools to promote the elaboration of a qualitative, critical and normative thinking around the forms of precariousness and their opposite, welfare. Results: presented in two sections: 1) The emergence of violence as a structure for the precariousness of life, a section that reflects on the increase in the forms of violence and their importance when addressing the issue of well-being; 2) Analysis of the forms of social precariousness, which proposes a matrix of the main forms of precariousness that actually exist in Mexico, where the elements of the continuum of inequality of violence are identified. Conclusions: it is proposed that a qualitative sociological knowledge of social precariousness and violence, of the forms and dynamics of social action is necessary to understand the substantive meaning of welfare; useful knowledge to guide public actions in favor of welfare in democratic societies, especially to test innovation in the design of social policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyses the epistemic functions of images in the geographic and sociological discourses on poverty habitat in the megacities of the global south by focusing on Mexico city. Based on a conceptual and methodological review of art history from Bildwissenschaft perspective (visual studies), this paper aims to examine the poverty habitat by describing its typologies, patterns, encodings and possible effects of its visual constructions. This contribution outlines the utility of this type of research, the function of inter and transdisciplinary studies in this field and its fundamental ethic dimension. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to make a sociological study of the Castilian episcopacy in the reign of Enrique IV (1454-1474). We will analyse differents sociological aspects of the bishops, such as their number, appointment age, social and regional origins, education or their pre-episcopal careers. The ultimate goal is to move towards a better knowledge of the bishops as an ecclesiastical and power elite in late medieval Castile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like other scientific disciplines, sociology can be observed as a social system made up of researchers, institutions, journals and publishers. These relationships are established via conceptual communications which form networks that establish the way in which disciplined are organized. At present, the big data phenomena offers the capacity to use large data collections to analyse social processes. Big scholarly data sources offer sociology immense quantities of data useful to describe and study the evolution of scientific disciplines in detail. In this article we characterised the last thirty years of sociology through its publications in impact factor journals. To do this, we use data about the sociology journals from Journal Citation reports augmented with article information from Microsoft Academic Graph. The analysis starts by describing the journals, countries of origin, languages, publishers, the decades in which they appeared and their impact factor. After this, we evaluate the evolution of numbers of articles and citations as well as co-authorship and gender proportion. Subsequently, we establish four groups of journal types and study their differences in the previous dimensions using hypothesis tests. Finally, we represent the relationships between authors and journals using an affiliation network that allows us to detect groups of journals that form interesting thematic and geographic communities. The novelty of the work consists in having used a data source of the so called big scholarly data with more than 300 million publications. The paper also provides several strategies to select the data of interest among the millions of publications to reduce their dimensionality in order to represent them in the form of a network. The results show a discipline dominated by Anglo-Saxon countries and large publishing conglomerates. The most prominent journals dominate citations whilst methodological journals have a higher degree of co-authorship and thematic journals have the lowest gender bias. The affiliation network between authors and journals contains two large groups, one formed by the pioneering American journals together with quantitative methodological journals and another one made up of English and qualitative methodological journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a Reading of Schillers' letters On the aesthetic Education of Man from the viewpoint of the concept "sociability" with which Schiller situates, in the last letter, the territory where the aesthetic way towards "freedom" would break through. It is pointed to the propagation of the sociability concept via the kantian anthropology and the sociology of Simmel. It is postulated the affinity of this approach with the contemporary thinking of the event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"There is no such Revival. Around the Philosophical Disquisitions on Alienation in the late Twentieth Century". The following paper proposes to give arguments to relativize the extensive account that the concept of alienation lost theoretical attention in the field of philosophy during the eighties of the last century, and that a revival of the study of the concept occurred in the nineties. The conclusion is that there was no such loss of attention, but that furthermore, the presumed premises in the discussion concerning alienation from the nineties up to the present were delineated during the eighties. This conclusion has two supporters: the type of approach regarding alienation carried out by analytical Marxism and the philosophical incursions into the concept in the context of North American sociology. Based on this, the text offers a systematization of the history of the philosophical study of the concept in two sections or stages. And it concerns itself with two -and not three- stages because, for what was argued, philosophy did not stop talking about alienation in the eighties, although it did so to a much lesser extent than before (specifically, during the sixties and seventies, considered the boom in the philosophical treatment of alienation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper studies the care of children < 1 year in professional sectors of the City of Buenos Aires. The activities, interactions and feelings observed in four hours of care between a mother and her 11-month-old baby are analyzed in the context of a series of interviews carried out with mothers and fathers of this socioeconomic stratum. The project is part of the social studies of care and the sociology of emotions, fields that have sought to better understand the motivations and experiences of social actors in their affective practices with others. The main hypothesis is that the dynamics and rhythms of care in this sector can assume unique temporal arrangements, linked to simultaneity, alternation, continuous bonding and permanent availability among children and their caregivers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper sets forth some tips of pedagogical work in the theoretical-methodological realm about the care of life directed to young people in upper high school. Restitution of historicity as a tool for intervention and biographical action may contribute to re-establish the guidelines of mutual recognition and to the emergence of symbolizations that transit everyday conflicts. Through clinic sociology as a comprehensive strategy and the premises of the South epistemology, it concludes that the understanding of self-history is fundamental to promote the students' ability of action on reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the results of a research carried out in the Sociology Department at Universidad de las Villas, in accordance with the guidelines of the Network Design and Attention to Gender Opportunities in Higher Education for the year 2020. On the basis of five dimensions, the Study Plan of the Sociology career was analyzed in order to arrive at proposals for the transversality of the gender perspective. It was found that, given the flexibility of the new Study Plan, it was possible to endorse in the contents of 13 subjects of the career, concrete elements of gender ideology, in addition to making proposals from research, postgraduate and extracurricular activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the understanding of the tourism phenomenon from social research in the era of big data, analyzing the use of artificial intelligence to identify emotions, social networks on the internet to draw user profiles and scoring systems to compute ratings. New research practices, arising from marketing, may relegate the measurement instruments that social scientists have traditionally used. Conditioned by their business purpose, these innovative techniques contain ethical and methodological problems that, in the field of tourism, are related to attempts to analyze emotions and opinions quantitatively. Problems that can become an object of analysis for the sociology of tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faced with the increasing emergence of new methodological approaches in the field of social science that stretch the dominant academic paradigm, this paper sets out to present some key analytical/methodological points that arose from a piece of militant research. In this case cartographic practice gave way to the implementation of narrative forms such as situated narratives and narrated interviews. The text offers a contribution to the development of these forms on the basis of analysis of a cooperative experiment in the context of Catalonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will review the different existing literature on studies of international relations in Latin America, specifically in Colombia will be reviewed. As a subject little explored by the scholars, this effort is a great contribution to the development of future research to account for the development of the discipline of international relations. Also, through this historic journey will be known about the background that led to the emergence and evolution of international studies in the region, finding that there are few studies that from the sociology of science have approached the international field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an analysis of the novel Sudor (2016), by the Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet, paying attention to the dialogue that it is established between his narrative strategies, which include the insertion of textovisual captures, and the new affective models that determine relationships in the era of advanced capitalism. The sociology of emotions and digital humanities serve as theoretical support to explore the reinvention of the rhetorical keys of Fuguet's poetics according to the configuration of new subjectivities in the 21st century. To this extent, the latest affect theories are applied within the digital culture and of "liquid love" (Bauman) in order to demonstrate that the rhythms of the present are manifested both in the construction of narrative discourse itself and in the new affective speeds that define the relationships between the characters. Thus, it is concluded that the use of technology, as a thematic and formal resource, operates in Sudor as a critical tool to question the changes that the digital paradigm has generated in the subjectivities development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose to analyze the conditions in which Antonio Pasquali approached, between the mid-sixties and the beginning of the seventies, the philosophical and sociological reflections elaborated by the Frankfurt School. From a theoretical-methodological framework inscribed in the sociology of culture, the cultural and intellectual networks in which the Venezuelan theorist participated are reconstructed. This analytical input allows us to account certain readings and appropriations of the so-called "critical theory of society", in a specific context about the discussions about the relationship between communication, culture and the mass media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Film and audiovisual narratives has long been recognized as a legitimate subject of the social and human sciences. They are studied as institutions, as shapers of collective conscience, as social practice, as an industrial goods. In this paper we focus upon their documentary value and capacity for mapping different areas of socio-cultural experience. There is a vast body of bibliography about the social content of films and television programs, although the academic literature concerning the methodological issues related to their analysis is significantly smaller. This disparity underlines the gap between the growing interest for unraveling their social meanings and the lack of awareness of the difficulties involved in linking their contents and formal features to the social, cultural and historical context. Unwarranted generalizations, flawed inferences and reductionisms resulting from mistaken assumptions and unsuitable tools have lead Westwell (2007) to describe this field as a "sub-area in search of a methology". In order to tackle that issue, the main theories about the relationships between the moving image and reality are discussed in the first part of this article. Next, a catalogue of the methodologies most frequently applied to audiovisual narrative is presented, accompanied by an assessment of their pros and cons. For demostration purposes, the last part is dedicated to articulate those methods in a proposal for interpreting a well-known Spanish television documentary about a highly sensitive period in Spain's history: La Transición, by Elias de Andres and Victoria Prego. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose one of the elements that in our opinion explain the growing and widespread manifestations of social unrest among the most diverse peoples of the Earth. The accumulation of capital, as a foundation for the growth of global production, implies limitations for efficient and effective use of scarce resources on the planet. These limitations impose forms of distribution of wealth among peoples resulting in inadequate social production for general needs, creating general social unrest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a progress report on the coming of a dialogic and critical sociologist in Venezuelan sociology. It paper studies the case of the historical evolution of sociological formation at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and its link with the recent contemporary social theory in relation to the postmodernism and critical theories of Habermas, Wallerstein and postcolonialism thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the epistemological tensions generated due to the search for legitimization of scientific knowledge. It stems from the discussion about science seen through "nomothetic" and "ideographic" standpoints, coming to the conclusion that there is a tendency to theorize from a vision that comes from an organizational order, putting on the back burner, to a large extent, the legitimizer tension that occurs in the socialization of scientific knowledge. The paper also values possibilities to analyze social sciences from Bourdieu's scientific field concept, who breaks up certain inertias about the official positions that theorize about science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present new theorisations of social structure in light of the new sociologies of the individual currently being developed in France. Although these sociologies are little known, they have significant value in rethinking today's society and sociology. Starting from a review of the concept and the main conceptions of social structure, I will focus on the most significant contributions of these new sociologies of the individual. To do this, on the one hand, it will be shown that the two classical traditions of social structure (institutional or cultural and as a class structure) are insufficient to explain today's society, in which the individual has become the main protagonist and key focus of sociology. On the other hand, in contrast with the old sociologies of the individual, which are centred on the micro level of social interaction, this paper analyses new structural constraints that limit the individual's action. The paper concludes with an invitation to develop these new sociologies at an individual scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Economic thought evolved over the past two centuries to focus on individual behavior as the basis for all economic activity. Some heterodox economists have pointed to the importance of group behavior and the influence of organizations on economic activity, but the neoclassical paradigm, with the rational isolated individual as its main actor, prevails in mainstream economics. This paper presents a "sociology of economics" to explain why the prevailing paradigm of economics does not allow seeing and studying group behavior. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the paper details the habitus, the system of beliefs and the symbolic violence against those who question them. Also, it highlights the support of commercial and financial interests to the dominant culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a model for characterize-ing and analyzing workspaces in contemporary Latin American organizations that seeks to portray the heterogeneous forms in which the activity of work unfolds in a single social and productive space. This model may be relevant for different types of social studies of work insofar as it sheds light on the structural characteristics that account for different social and subjective processes. It proposes the notion of work scenarios, understood as typical labor configurations where certain ways of organizing work and employment and human management practices converge which reflect the basic contribution that is expected of workers by the organization, and the type of relation the organization offers in return. In addition to proposing analytical criteria and methodological approach strategies, the paper describes a qualitative research experience that tested the notion of work scenarios as a result of which six scenarios were identified that provided cross-section of important sectors of the Chilean economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to make a Foucaultean approach to the meta-governmentality. Hence, we will do a close reading of Foucault's works in order to find epistemological tools. Then, we will focus our work in the durkhemian reflections made about the objectivity of sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we seek understand and explain a particular social phenomenon: the reshaping of the social and moral behavior of a group of fans of the "Club Atlético Belgrano" soccer team of Córdoba, Argentina, which is known as Los Piratas (The Pirates). In more specific terms, we aim to show that it became possible for those fans to change their habitually violent behavior to one that is relatively peaceful now. For this purpose, the first section discusses the effectiveness of certain symbolic acts which helped to overturn the fans' tolerance of violence in the most important sector of the moral universe of Los Piratas: the tribunal popular or section of the stadium, with the cheapest tickets, where young fans sit. The second section relates the "case of Belgrano" to broader social phenomena in the context of violence by young soccer fans, policies for safe sports events and the mechanisms of social control used by our contemporary societies. An approach to these social phenomena cannot be reductionist and simplistic, hence our study follows an integral and combinatory approach which links a situational and ethnographic analysis of the fans of the Belgrano team with a holistic one. We do not refer to "representativeness" or a linear relationship between the "micro" and the "macro": instead, we think of it in terms of an "interactive overlap" of such processes (Geertz 2006, 53). We likewise propose a methodological triangulation, where quantitative and the qualitative techniques complement each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our research belongs to the field of social studies of science. Within this field, we try to perform an epistemological analysis about Sociology in Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) between 1987 and 2004. Specifically, we will do a documental review of the UBA Sociology career syllabus and a quantitative analysis on the papers presented on the UBA Jornadas de Sociología of 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2004. Our hypothesis is that both in the syllabus as in the Jornadas, epistemological, theorical and methodological elements of the social sciences potsmodern paradigm can be identified. These elements, from our perspective, have important effects in the development of the discipline and the formation of its students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a theoretical contribution which seeks to clarify, analyze and develop some Sigmund Freud's ideas about culture and the social processes. The paper preferably uses three Freudian texts: "Totem and Taboo", "The Future of an Illusion" and "Civilization and Its Discontents". An analysis of each one of them is provided, and then some lines of social analysis about the paternal issue, the phratry, the gender perspective, and the relationship established between the individual and society are suggested. It is necessary to indicate that Freud's work is neither simple nor lineal, but the ambiguous and complex predominates in it, articulating original concepts and ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper compares the commuicative definitions of “the social” proposed by Niklas Luhmann and Jürgen Habermas from a systematic perspective. From the results reached, the reciprocal receptions between the authors are discussed and a renewed theoretical interpretation of divergences and convergences is proposed. The hypothesis of the work states that Habermas and Luhmann, based in the concept of communication, converge in a radically dyadic and multi-leveled conception of the sociological analytical unit, however they diverge in its analytical segmentation. [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]

Historically, many generational gulfs have existed between adulthood and youth, and music is one of them, this is due, in part by power relationships. The young people of Santiago are not an exception. Big gaps are opened thanks the differences about the musical tastes. However in Cuban case the education, conformation and satisfaction of musical consumptions and tastes must be also in hand of Culture institutions. This essay begins in the problematic inside the work of culture sector, about its design of proposal and strategic to leisure time, and how this work is away to young people interest. That´s why the scientific approaches since music sociology is justified, toward the musical consumer and tastes to fill the lacks in the action of institutions. The present paper shows the general view of methodological and theoretical frames of the future research on musical consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Women participation in Spanish sociological journals is analysed during the period 2001-2005, by means of bibliometrics and Social Network Analysis. There is a predominance of men (75,08% of authors) compare to women (24,92%), despite the fact that there is a majority of women ending University studies. This inequality starts to be perceived from the beginning of their research and professional development and it intensifies with time. As a result, only a reduced number of women reach the highest positions in the academic rankings, which correspond to authors with the highest productivity. Related to that, it has been observed a phenomenon of bottleneck, according to it as the number of women writers reduces, the productivity threshold increases. There must be studied in depth the barriers that make difficult the development of a professional course among women and to carry out a diachronic monitoring of the professional occupation and their contribution to papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has been structured in three areas. In the first one, the author shows the relevance that words and conversations among individuals have on social research, both terms being very important to the well-known sociologist and writer Franco Ferrarotti. In the second part, the author explains the necessary qualitative methodology to be used when analysing a main topic. In the third one, the author analyses the reality of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from the gender perspective to detect if they are or not a reflection of that Spanish reality regarding sex discrimination. Finally, this paper states the challenge the Spanish society needs to face to outweigh sex inequality without excluding the NGOs or any other form of association. This paper calls for the involvement of society, which along with the state and market, has an important task to accomplish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the traditional approach to the sociology of science based upon Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge. Robert Merton's program is discussed as the basis of sociology of science. Furthermore, Kuhn is acknowledged as having set up the foundation for a new paradigm in the sociology of science. This paper intends to defend the work of Kuhn as the framework by which other current studies in the social sciences under the name of «sociologies of scientific knowledge» have come about. Finally, several key pedagogical issues taken from the traditional sociology of science as argued by Merton are discussed. It has been found that pedagogy in terms of sociology of science has closely followed the framework used by the other social sciences. Several advances and achievements that have recently made some headway are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ambivalence, taken as the split of person in a multiple self, is a constitutive feature of human beings. Despite some theoretical approaches that have accepted this issue, sociology usually not to pay attention it deserves. This paper tries to systematize the fundamental sources of ambivalence (ontological, psychological, sociological and situational) and to highlight some of its (ontolo-gical, epistemological and methodological) implications for sociology. The aim is to show that the assumption of ambivalence makes the sociological theories of human beings more realistic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In contemporary sociology there is an emerging and belief as to what concerns the "ma 'ng of society": the idea is that society is made up by communications and only by communications. The neosystemic perspective has brought the idea to a much sophisticated point of view. In this paper, the author tries to challenge this perspective, by analyzing the two main approaches used in current research on the relations between culture and communication. The first is characterized by insisting upon the relative autonomy of culture. The second treats culture as an instrument of communication (through symbolic codes, etc.). The author claims that both theories have advantages and disadvantages but, on the whole, they are extremely lacking. The paper confronts these theories and develops a new perspective. Culture is necessary to communication both as an instrument and as a meaning in itself. But this very fact can be explained and understood only by being able to observe culture both as internal (immanent) and external (transcendent) in respect to social relationships, and this implies to treat the culture/communication nexus through a "relational framework". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After merely a brief, comparative reconstruction of the three most general theoretical models underlying contemporary Sociology (atomic, systemic, and fluid) it becomes necessary to review the question about the unity or plurality of Sociology, which is the main objective of this paper. To do so, the basic terms of the question are firstly updated by following the hegemonic trends in current studies of science. Secondly the convergences and divergences among the three models discussed are shown. Following some additional discussion, the conclusion is reached that contemporary Sociology is not unitary, and need not be so. It is plural, but its plurality is limited and articulated by those very models. It may therefore be portrayed as integrated and commensurable, to the extent that a partial and unstable (dis)unity may be said to exist in Sociology, which is not too far off from what happens in the natural sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Sociology was born with scientific vocation, its current status as a scientific discipline seems not to enjoy good health. Departing from this idea, the purpose of the paper is threefold: first, several arguments for explanations of social phenomena through mechanisms will be reviewed. Such explanations can offer a suitable way to Sociology to be able to develop as an authentic science. Second, the idea that such explanations can be computational programmes created by agent-based modelling will be justified. Finally, it will build new arguments about how such explanations can avoid the ambiguity and the obscurity conceptual that a part of sociology suffers; reduce its theoretical fragmentation and strengthen the multidisciplinary dialogue with the purpose of researching in depth social reality as well as being able to design effective policies against several social problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent times, mankind has been able to optimize the scientific and technological advances exceptionally, transforming history as no other event had done since Neolithic times and ensuring the emergence of a new society "informational", "technology" or "knowledge ". Technology has played a prominent role in these changes dynamic phenomena such as digital globalization has changed paradigms, social patterns and habits of millions of individual´s roles. The traditional mechanisms of political socialization are implemented by the emergence of new technologies in the population. In this context we propose how they perform the processes of political socialization of citizens today. The plurality of languages and sensibilities, the crisis of the usual paradigms, and the integration into broader, political units requires us to explore new spaces and forms of education / political socialization. In this paper we aim, firstly, to ask what's new in technological socialization and in the second stage, what implications this has on the construction of a new mode of political education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education has undergone many changes since the Sorbonne Declaration (1998) and its subsequent incorporation into the European Higher Education Space. One of the most significant changes has been to give students a protagonist role in the teaching-learning process. However, this role cannot be bestowed unless the student truly participates in the aforesaid process. The aim of this paper is to present the experience designed and implemented in the course, "Research and Socio-Educational Intervention", third semester for the undergraduate degree in Sociology (University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain). An assessment of participatory methodology applied to a specific subject for that degree was conducted, measuring the level of student satisfaction with it. The experience developed was innovative for this degree. What was intended was that students participate actively in the course through group work, performing activities, discussions and reflections, etc. Results of the experiment have been optimal due to student involvement and satisfaction regarding the methodology developed and the results obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There has been, in the last decades, a bunch of different authors claiming the convenience of describing the most basic elements of current societies as fluids. As a consequence of this proposal, it began the construction of a theoretical model of social fluidity that still needs more accuracy and development. This paper, which is just the first half of a propaedeutic work, trays to build the necessary grounds for the empirical implementation of afore mentioned theoretical model. We start by reviewing the main concepts used by the so called "Theories of Complexity" in modelling complex processes in other scientific fields. Then we point out the limits that may be found in using these theories when modelling the specific complexity of current social fluidity. Finally we discuss how such concepts should be modified and developed in order to be useful in the context of a theory of social fluidity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Sociology was bom with scientific vocation, its current status as a scientific discipline seems not to enjoy good health. Departing from this idea, the purpose of the paper is threefold: first, several arguments for explanations of social phenomena through mechanisms will be reviewed. Such explanations can offer a suitable way to Sociology to be able to develop as an authentic science. Second, the idea that such explanations can be computational programmes created by agent-based modelling will be justified. Finally, it will build new arguments about how such explanations can avoid the ambiguity and the obscuríty conceptual that a part of sociology suffers; reduce its theoretical fragmentation and strengthen the multidisciplinary dialogue with the purpose of researching in depth social reality as well as being able to design effective policies against several social problems.` [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to offer a critical view on the role of emotions in financial markets. More specifically, I pretend to analyze the relationship between emotions and the socio-structural conditions of these markets. I propose an approach based on a) secondary ethnographic sources through which it is possible to explore the individual inter-subjectivity of the financial actors and b) a specific kind of financial literature whose main goal is to propose a behavioral-emotional regulation model for traders. According to several main concepts from Norbert Elias' sociology, I suggest an analytical scheme which connects the macro-sociological and micro-sociological aspects related to the presence and regulation of financial emotions. In this sense, I try to respond to two key questions: a) what are the typical emotions experienced by financial actors and which are their functions in the investment decision process? and b) which emotional regulation patterns are proposed to these actors in order to complete successful financial operations? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyse participatory methodologies applied to the planning and management of landscape and compares this analysis with the experience developed for the participatory planning of mount San Cristóbal-Ezkaba in the metropolitan area of Pamplona-Iruñea (Navarre). We reflect on its capabilities and advantages paying special attention to the strategies for gathering the social senses and landscape perceptions in different social groups and to incorporate them into the participatory process. Our research explores the effectiveness of different methodological designs and techniques to achieve this goal. The peculiarities of our case study allows us to examine the participatory processes and its potential to encourage citizen engagement with the conservation, planning and management of everyday environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]