Download or read book Sociedad cultura y poder written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poder y performance written by Alexander, Jeffrey C. and published by CIS- Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La sociología cultural desarrollada por Jeffrey Alexander pretende superar las limitaciones de las teorías de la sociedad y de la acción desarrolladas desde las perspectivas clásicas de la sociología, en las que el papel de la cultura, la ideología, lo simbólico y el significado aparecen como meros reflejos de la estructura o base material de la vida social. Lo que en una primera fase se llevó a cabo mediante un «programa fuerte» de inspiración durkheimiana, más adelante experimentó un giro performativo que se nutrió de disciplinas tan dispares como la filosofía del lenguaje, la antropología cultural o los estudios escénicos. Este enfoque multidisciplinar permite desentrañar analítica y empíricamente aspectos del papel de la cultura en la vida social ignorados hasta entonces. En Poder y performance, Alexander reúne un conjunto de trabajos fundamentales para entender este nuevo enfoque de su sociología cultural. En los primeros plantea los fundamentos de su teoría de la pragmática cultural, definiendo los elementos de la performance social y analizando cómo las dificultades para mantenerlos unidos afectan a la producción de sentido, así como el papel que desempeña en ello el poder. En un intento deliberado de situarse en el plano mertoniano de las teorías de rango medio, el resto del libro ofrece diferentes aplicaciones empíricas de esta perspectiva, como son la campaña electoral de Barack Obama y su fracaso simbólico como presidente, el triunfo del movimiento por los derechos civiles, la violencia terrorista del 11 de Septiembre, el fiasco estadounidense en la guerra iraquí o el papel de los intelectuales públicos.
Download or read book El poder de la identidad written by Manuel Castells and published by Alianza Editorial Sa. This book was released on 2003 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El poder de la identidad —el segundo volumen de la trilogía La era de la información, de Manuel Castells— analiza la dinámica social, política y cultural asociada con la transformación tecnológica de nuestras sociedades y con la globalización de la economía. Muestra la importancia de la identidad cultural, religiosa y nacional como fuente de significado para las personas, y las implicaciones de este hecho para los movimientos sociales. Estudia las movilizaciones populares contra la globalización sin freno de la riqueza y el poder, así como la formación de proyectos alternativos de organización social, como los que representan el movimiento ecologista y el feminista. Asimismo estudia la crisis del estado nación y su transformación gradual en estado red. Y pone de relieve la crisis de la democracia política a consecuencia de las dificultades de la gobernanza internacional y del sometimiento de la política a los dictados de la política mediática y la política del escándalo. Esta segunda edición, considerablemente ampliada, actualiza y profundiza el análisis de esos temas e incorpora nuevas secciones sobre Al Qaeda y las redes terroristas globales, el movimiento antiglobalización, el unilateralismo estadounidense y los conflictos de la gobernanza global, la crisis de legitimidad política en todo el mundo y la teoría del estado red.
Download or read book Poder y sociedad civil written by Raúl Hernández Vega and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Odisea n 4 Revista de estudios ingleses written by Jesús Gerardo Martínez del castillo and published by Universidad Almería. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.
Download or read book Building Legitimacy written by Isabel Alfonso and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides relevant insights into medieval political legitimation, and its impact on political competition and notions of power. With a main focus on medieval Castile, the political discourses purporting to legitimate practices of power are discussed, both as pieces of textual material and in their wider historical context.
Download or read book Critical Craft written by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes ‘craft’ in a wide variety of practices from around the world. Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional artisans, and technical programmers who consider their labor to be craft, in order to comprehend how they make sense of it. The authors’ ethnographic studies focus on the individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own, bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond regional studies of heritage artisanship, the authors suggest that ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to these sometimes conflicting voices, this collection shows that there is great flexibility in terms of which activities are labelled ‘craft’. In fact, there are many related ideas of craft and these shape distinct engagements with materials, people, and the economy. Case studies from countries including Mexico, Nigeria, India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and France draw together evidence based on linguistics, microsociology, and participant observation to explore the shifting terrain on which those engaged in craft are operating. What emerges is a fascinating picture which shows how claims about craft are an integral part of contemporary global change.
Download or read book Made to Measure Future s for Democracy written by Julen Zabalo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is divided into four parts. The chapters in Part I analyze the tensions between the neoliberal vision of democracy and the voices contesting it, with projections at different levels of government. The chapters in Part II focus on the emerging framework and scales of Western democracy. The chapters in Part III present new forms of citizen participation, paying special - though not exclusive - attention to new practical strategies for Basque society. The volume concludes with a block of chapters on the relevance of reviewing the methodological and epistemological frameworks from which knowledge about democracy and mechanisms of citizen participation is generated (Part IV). By delving deeper into the idea and practice of democratic governance, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students from all disciplines of politics, international relations, sociology and law.
Download or read book The International Handbook on Social Innovation written by Frank Moulaert and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔThe challenges of poverty and social exclusion cannot be fully resolved through conventional public sector policies and market-led innovation. The case studies in this Handbook capture some of the key success factors of socially innovative action in different socio-economic contexts. This Handbook will inspire readers as it highlights the creativity and commitment of diverse enterprises and movements working for social innovation.Õ Ð Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements, United Republic of Tanzania, and retired UN Under Secretary General, immediate former Executive Director of UN-HABITAT ÔSocial innovation may not be a new idea but it is clearly an idea whose time has come, not least because the traditional models of innovation Ð narrowly framed technical models Ð have run their course and no longer resonate in a world of societal challenges. This Handbook has two great merits Ð it brings conceptual rigour to the debate and it provides compelling narratives of social innovation in practice.Õ Ð Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University, UK ÔIn an era where social innovation is re-emerging as an important policy framework for bringing social transformation, this volume is a significant contribution to the theory and practice of social innovation. The incremental discussion from concepts to theory to practice and then to social innovation research is supported by cases literally from all over the globe. It moves the discourse from isolated models of neighbourhood engagements and social enterprises, to a comprehensive, multidimensional approach combining needs, social relations and empowerment. A must read for academicians, learners, practitioners and policy makers alike.Õ Ð S. Parasuraman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India ÔSocial innovation is an important instrument for understanding how contemporary societies deal with social change and how social practices and policies intended to combat poverty and social exclusion are developed and implemented effectively. The Handbook offers a valuable contribution to the development of a clear, transdisciplinary and critical understanding of social innovation practices. The reader will find an in-depth discussion of the most important theoretical approaches to the concept and a thorough exposition of the epistemological and methodological framework for research in social innovation. The volume includes a number of interesting case studies in different areas of social change and issues of policy and governance.Õ Ð Enzo Mingione, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy This enriching Handbook covers many aspects of the scientific and socio-political debates on social innovation today. The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key to human development. The Handbook defines social innovation as innovation in social relations within both micro and macro spheres, with the purpose of satisfying unmet or new human needs across different layers of society. It connects social innovation to empowerment dynamics, thus giving a political character to social movements and bottom-up governance initiatives. Together these should lay the foundations for a fairer, more democratic society for all. This interdisciplinary work, written by scholars collaborating to develop a joint methodological perspective toward social innovation agency and processes, will be invaluable for students and researchers in social science and humanities. It will also appeal to policy makers, policy analysts, lobbyists and activists seeking to give inspiration and leadership from a social innovation perspective.
Download or read book Globalizaciones m ltiples written by Peter L. Berger and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muchas veces invocada, pero escasamente comprendida, la globalizacion es aplaudida como respuesta a todos los problemas del mundo a la vez que se la culpa de ellos, desde la contaminacion hasta la pobreza. En Globalizaciones multiples, Peter L. Berger y Samuel P. Huntington reunen a un elenco de expertos de todo el mundo que dibuja un retrato sutil y lleno de matices mostrando a un tiempo el poder y las consecuencias inesperadas de esta gran fuerza del mundo contemporaneo.En este libro los estereotipos que identifican la globalizacion con el imperialismo estadounidense, por un lado o con una especie de panacea economica por el otro acaban desmoronandose ante el examen riguroso de estos analistas. Al observar la globalizacion en paises como Chile, Japon, Sudafrica, Alemania, Turquia, Hungria, Taiwan, India y Estados Unidos los autores dan fe de la existencia de una cultura global incipiente de marcado origen y contenido estadounidense pero que no es ni una fuerza dirigida desde un centro como en el caso del imperialismo clasico, ni una mera "Disneylandia metastatica." Examinan las corrientes que transmiten esta cultura que van desde una clase mundial de jovenes profesionales hasta las organizaciones no gubernamentales y definen tanto las multiples variantes de la globalizacion -las influencias budistas, la modernidad islamica- como las subglobalizaciones que agrupan regiones enteras. Asimismo los autores llaman la atencion sobre fuerzas globalizadoras que han pasado inadvertidas al examen de los medios de comunicacion como por ejemplo el papel del protestantismo evangelico -que se adapta a los idiomas y las culturas locales e introduce valores estadounidenses caracteristicos-y el delOpus Dei el movimiento catolico conservador que tuvo su origen en Espana.Analitico, intens
Download or read book Mass Migration to Modern Latin America written by Samuel L. Baily and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that large numbers of Europeans migrated overseas during the century preceding the Great Depression of 1930, many of them to the United States. What is not well known is that more than 20 percent of these migrants emigrated to Latin America, significantly influencing the demographic, economic, and cultural evolution of many areas in the region. Mass Migration to Modern Latin America includes original contributions from more than a dozen leading scholars of the innovative new Latin American migration history that has emerged in the past 20 years. Though the authors focus primarily on the nature and impact of mass migration to Argentina and Brazil from 1870-1930, they place their analysis in broader historical and comparative contexts. Each section of the book begins with personal stories of individual immigrants and their families, providing students with a glimpse of how the complex process of migration played out in various situations. This book demonstrates the crucial impact of the mass migrations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the formation of some Latin American societies.
Download or read book Los valores sociales y culturales written by Díez Nicolás, Juan and published by CIS. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Cada sociedad, en cada momento de la historia, responde con las formas de organización que parecen más instrumentales para lograr la mejor adaptación de la población a su medio natural y social. La historia demuestra que ha sido la ampliación del acceso a mayores recursos en el medio ambiente natural y social (por las innovaciones en la tecnología de los transportes y las comunicaciones) lo que ha condicionado los cambios en la organización política, y después en todas las demás formas de organización social, incluidos los sistemas de valores. Por tanto,y como es lógico, considero mucho más plausible la hipótesis de que vuelvan a unirse el poder financiero-económico y el político, esta vez en una globalización mundial, y ello implicará un incremento de la autoridad, no necesariamente del autoritarismo, aunque no se puede descartar que el recurso a la autoridad, para garantizar la seguridad de cerca de 10.000 millones de habitantes del planeta, conduzca hacia nuevas formas de autoritarismo. El equilibrio entre la organización económica y política podrá producirse porque el nuevo poder del capitalismo financiero imponga su propio sistema político, equivalente al suyo, en todo o casi todo el planeta. Pero alternativamente porque surja un poder político mundial capaz de implementar un sistema normativo que imponga límites al poder del capitalismo financiero. Las nuevas generaciones tendrán que decidir qué modelo de sociedad desean y pueden implementar.» (Texto extraído del Epílogo de la presente obra) Juan Díez Nicolás recibió el Premio Nacional de Sociología y Ciencia Política en 2012, galardón concedido por el Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas como «reconocimiento a una trayectoria científica desarrollada en el ámbito de la sociología».
Download or read book Construcci n social y cultural del poder en las Am ricas written by Cielo Zaidenwerg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agenciamiento expresi n afecto written by Tom Waibel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literaturangaben. - Zsfassungen in dt. und span. Sprache
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the re-democratization of much of Latin America in the 1980s and a regional wave of anti-austerity protests in the 1990s, social movement studies has become an important part of sociological, political, and anthropological scholarship on the region. The subdiscipline has framed debates about formal and informal politics, spatial and relational processes, as well as economic changes in Latin America. While there is an abundant literature on particular movements in different countries across the region, there is limited coverage of the approaches, debates, and theoretical understandings of social movement studies applied to Latin America. In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, Federico M. Rossi presents a survey of the broad range of theoretical perspectives on social movements in Latin America. Bringing together a wide variety of viewpoints, the Handbook includes five sections: theoretical approaches to social movements, as applied to Latin America; processes and dynamics of social movements; major social movements in the region; ideational and strategic dimensions of social movements; and the relationship between political institutions and social movements. Covering key social movements and social dynamics in Latin America from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements is an indispensable reference for any scholar interested in social movements, protest, contentious politics, and Latin American studies.
Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by Dolores Moyano Martin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell has been assistant editor since 1994. The subject categories for Volume 55 are as follows: Anthropology (including Archaeology and Ethnology) Economics Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology
