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This paper evaluates graduate students' reading comprehension of the polyphony and intertextuality of scientific texts, from a socio-cognitive perspective. Reading comprehension is a process of integrating experience, previous reading, information processing, and the systematization and analysis of empirical data. This type of reading becomes an indicator of the level of reading comprehension, which is reflected at other moments in scientific work, such as the interpretation of research results or writing. From this perspective, an analysis is made of the reader's mental associations in appropriating knowledge in the educational field. The research contributes to the characterization of scientific texts in education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present the preliminary results of an investigation into the political culture and social capital of youths in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, which we conducted with resources from the Teaching Improvement Program (Mexico). Specifically, we start from the field theory as a theoretical model and discourse analysis as a qualitative research technique we methodologically framed its work. Both aspects can drill beliefs and attitudes of youths from Hidalgo about politics, and why, apparently, they display disinterest. From the results of said disinterest it is not observed but it is the political field which closes for them, as it is inserted into a social monopoly. The stance of these young people is ethical, but does not vindicate for greater political participation, which leaves for the actors the maintenance of the field or the change in the rules of inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is investigated through a careful quantitative and qualitative monitoring of the news in Veracruz, to figure out the influence of the press in the electoral behaviour through the analysis of the media tendency of 10 local papers, selected from their regional geographical cover, during the Elections to choose Federal Representatives in 2009. The Theory is based on the paradigm of the electoral behaviour in the psychosocial model that matches with the researches of the mass media, political culture, and public opinion, all these framed in social representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a piece of research into the intra- discursive process in which a specific social object, denoted by the expression "civil society", has been constructed and mobilized by a particular discourse of a Mexican rebel organization, at a definite moment, from January 1994 to September 1996. The analysis of this discourse enables the description of the parallel evolutions of four kinds of construction; extensive, comprehensive, relative and dynamic. After presenting this analysis and its interpretation in an extra-discursive context, the resultant arguments are used to discuss a number of theoretical conceptions of civil society and social mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]