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The article presents the author's criticism on the works of scholar Richard Morse on the cultural tradition of Latin America and the U.S. between 1960 and 1990. Various topics discussed include philosophy of influential writings, principles of the natural law in 17th century, communal life in the U.S. and existence of old cultures in both countries.

The idea of community occupied an important place in the reflections of the sociolog-ical classics. For Marx, Tönnies, Weber, Dürkheim, Simmel, and others, it was a tool of analysis and description or of critiquing and surpassing modern society. Parsons attempts a refoundation (and reunification) of sociological theory. He must, then, face the ubiquity of the notion of community in social theory. Present throughout his work, community reappears crucially in his last theoretical formulations as "societal com-munity." This article will delve into the conditions and implications of a the Parsonian use of the notion of "community." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the massive migrant mobilizations in the United States during the spring of 2006, providing an analysis of their character and composition, their repertories of actions and discourses, and their historical-global meaning. By asking the question if these collective actions (whose actors are in the majority Latin trans-migrants in the United States) constitute a social movement, the text also uses various theoretical perspectives about social movements, at the same time as it formulates a proper analytical framework based on a study of the concept of anti-systemic movements. The work also introduces a perspective compared to Europe and discusses the ethical-political implications of the new migrant movement in the United States on the new wave of anti-systemic movements of the beginnings of the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work is a research about social parasitism. There's not a good bibliography on this subject, but it's posible to ask for an antropology of the social parasite using disciplines like Economy, Sociology and Social Psychology, and using too some authors in the border of the antropology. Our work is also an historical one. We can establish that the problem of social parasitism was born at the end of the 19th century, and that now is more or least a general one. Nowadays, the parasite is the perverse. At the same time, USA becomed the land of parasitism. We consider that our work opens a good perspectiva to future research on this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information on a conference of American Catholics organized by the Conferencia Episcopal Norteamericana that was held in Orlando, Florida in July 2016 is presented. Topics discussed include history of North American churches, challenges faced by bishops in preaching biblical teachings and dechristianization in the U.S. society.

El artículo discurre sobre las clases sociales de los Estados Unidos. El autor comenta sobre las condiciones sociales estadounidenses y describe los aspectos educativos, económicos y políticos asociados con las distinciones entre las clases sociales. También se considera el problema actual de la inmigración en los EE.UU.