Download or read book Amerindian Paths written by Danilo Silva Guimarães and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples. As such, the project – of which the present book is part – concerns to a meta-theoretical reflection aiming to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology. From this meta-theoretical reflection we have been developing the notion of dialogical multiplication as it implies the diversification (differentiation and dedifferentiation) of semiotic trajectories in interethnic boundaries.

Download or read book Institutions Mobilisation and Political Participation written by Laura Morales Diez de Ulzurrun and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta tesis mantiene que no podemos entender completamente el asociacionismo político de los ciudadanos a menos que fijemos nuestra mirada más allá de las características individuales; es decir, a menos que intentemos comprender qué efecto tiene sobre su comportamiento político el contexto político y social en el que los ciudadanos actúan. Los recursos y las características socioeconómicas proporcionan oportunidades para unirse a organizaciones políticas. Las actitudes y las orientaciones proveen (o, por el contrario, reducen) la motivación para unirse a un grupo con objetivos políticos. Sin embargo, estos rasgos individuales no son necesariamente factores de desigualdad en todas las sociedades ni tienen siempre las mismas consecuencias. El contexto social y político en el que los ciudadanos toman decisiones sobre su participación interactúa, de manera importante, con los rasgos individuales para activar o desactivar su impacto político. Además, el contexto social y político que rodea a los ciudadanos tiene también un impacto independiente sobre su comportamiento político. Las instituciones políticas y las pautas de movilización política condicionan de manera crucial el asociacionismo político. Estos dos conjuntos de factores -instituciones y movilización- estructuran las oportunidades de participación que en realidad tienen los ciudadanos. De hecho, algunos sistemas democráticos han desarrollado instituciones políticas que facilitan la pertenencia a grupos políticos. Así, mientras que en algunos países occidentales los ciudadanos son movilizados con mucha frecuencia a través de asociaciones políticas, en otros lo son en mucha menor medida. Esta tesis es, por lo tanto, un intento de incorporar de una manera sistemática la "política" y las "instituciones" en el análisis del comportamiento político. A lo largo de la misma se demuestra que las enormes diferencias entre los países occidentales en términos de la propensión de sus respectivos ciudadanos a organizarse políticamente, no pueden explicarse sólo por las distintas características socioeconómicas de los individuos. Sin duda, estos aspectos también contribuyen a que sean menos participativos, pero no nos ayudan gran cosa a explicar las variaciones que encontramos entre sociedades occidentales. Los resultados de esta investigación ponen de manifiesto la enorme importancia del contexto sociopolítico para explicar por qué los ciudadanos de algunas democracias occidentales participan en política a través de organizaciones y por qué no lo hacen los de otras sociedades similares. Determinadas estructuras de oportunidades políticas favorecen la participación de los ciudadanos de manera muyimportante. Así, sistemas políticos más abiertos a la influencia de las organizaciones políticas, gracias a la existencia de arreglos corporativistas de intermediación de intereses y al mayor pluralismo y fragmentación de la representación parlamentaria, contribuyen a que los ciudadanos encuentren mayores incentivos para participar en los asuntos públicos. Del mismo modo, el grado en que las propias organizaciones políticas actúan como agentes efectivos de movilización política influye en el comportamiento participativo de los ciudadanos. Allí donde las organizaciones políticas tienen una red organizativa y de infraestructuras más densas, los ciudadanos están más expuestos a los estímulos de reclutamiento político y, por tanto, participan más. Además, el contexto político no sólo estructura las oportunidades de participación de los ciudadanos, sino que también interactúa con las características de los propios ciudadanos, contribuyendo así a aumentar o disminuir las desigualdades participativas de los mismos. Las estructuras políticas más abiertas y accesibles disminuyen las barreras y los costes a la participación, de tal manera que los individuos con menores recursos socioeconómicos -por ejemplo, la educación- no se encuentran tan desfavorecidos en su capacidad de influir en el proceso de toma de decisiones. Por el contrario, las estructuras políticas más cerradas exacerban el efecto de las desigualdades sociales y las transforman en desigualdades políticas. De esta manera, el contexto político tiene un doble efecto sobre el asociacionismo político en las democracias occidentales. Por un lado, condiciona cuánta gente participa en los asuntos públicos a través de organizaciones políticas y, por otro, incide en quiénes son los que participan. Los sistemas políticos más abiertos extienden e igualan la participación organizada de los ciudadanos; los sistemas políticos más cerrados reducen la participación y la hacen más desigual socialmente.

Download or read book Revista de ciencia pol tica written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Milton Santos A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South written by Lucas Melgaço and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Milton Santos (1926-2001) has been considered one of the most influential thinkers in Brazilian and Latin American social sciences and geography. Yet his writings, most of which have not been translated into English, are largely unknown to European and North American audiences. This book introduces English-speaking scholars to Professor Santos through critical engagement with his ideas and writings. The chapters presented here reveal the breadth and originality of his critical thought, as well as its ongoing importance to contemporary debates. The book features a biography of Santos and includes an annotated translation of one of his most-cited texts, The Return of the Territory, offered here for the first time in English. This text demonstrates how Santos’s provocative insights continue to transform core concepts of political and human geography. The book also includes a number of short chapters written by scholars from Brazil, Spain and France. Through reflections on Santos’s work, the various authors demonstrate the value and possibilities of extending the geographer’s theories. They explore key geographical themes across political economy, rural studies, territorial planning, environmental crisis, digital networks, indigenous peoples, transportation and public health. This collection invites geographers from around the world to engage with this rich intellectual tradition from Brazil.

Download or read book Technology and Social Inclusion written by Mark Warschauer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies. Drawing on theory from political science, economics, sociology, psychology, communications, education, and linguistics, the book examines the ways in which differing access to technology contributes to social and economic stratification or inclusion. The book takes a global perspective, presenting case studies from developed and developing countries, including Brazil, China, Egypt, India, and the United States. A central premise is that, in today's society, the ability to access, adapt, and create knowledge using information and communication technologies is critical to social inclusion. This focus on social inclusion shifts the discussion of the "digital divide" from gaps to be overcome by providing equipment to social development challenges to be addressed through the effective integration of technology into communities, institutions, and societies. What is most important is not so much the physical availability of computers and the Internet but rather people's ability to make use of those technologies to engage in meaningful social practices.

Download or read book Principles for Building Resilience written by Reinette Biggs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the very latest research, this book provides an in-depth review of the role of resilience in the management of social-ecological systems and the ecosystem services they provide. Leaders in the field outline seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems, examining how these can be applied to advance sustainability.

Download or read book What Writing Does and How It Does It written by Charles Bazerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis. The chapters have been developed to provide answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering: *a preview of the chapter's content and purpose; *an introduction to basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies in the area; *details on the types of data and questions for which the analysis is best used; *examples from a wide-ranging group of texts, including educational materials, student writing, published literature, and online and electronic media; *one or more applied analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and illustrations of a particular sample of data; and *a brief summary, suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities. The side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best method for a particular research question. The volume contributors are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric, literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education, ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.

Download or read book Innovating with Concept Mapping written by Alberto Cañas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concept Mapping, CMC 2016, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2016. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. The papers address issues such as facilitation of learning; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using “expert” knowledge; planning instruction; assessment of “deep” understandings; research planning; collaborative knowledge modeling; creation of “knowledge portfolios”; curriculum design; eLearning, and administrative and strategic planning and monitoring.

Download or read book Internet in languages for specific purposes and foreign language teaching written by María José Esteve and published by Universitat Jaume I. This book was released on 2003 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La relació entre llengua i Internet es posa de manifest en aquesta obra, que fa èmfasi en la manera com Internet contribueix al desenvolupament d'aspectes pràctics com ara la recerca terminològica, l'ensenyament fent servir materials curriculars en xarxa...

Download or read book Publicidad contagiosa written by Silvia Sivera and published by Editorial UOC. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El marketing viral se inoculó en el panorama profesional publicitario como una vacuna eficazy económica contra la supuesta inmunidad de las audiencias a los mensajes comerciales. Conseguir que fueran los consumidores quienes transmitieran los anuncios espontáneamente entre sus redes sociales se consideró la panacea en un mercado comunicativo sobresaturado. Sin embargo, la publicidad boca a oreja, basada en recomendaciones, ya conseguía el mismo objetivo desde tiempos ancestrales. Fueron las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TIC) las que posibilitaron el salto exponencial hacia la publicidad viral y, en consecuencia, un cambio de magnitudes sin precedentes: los contenidos comerciales pasaban a ser compartibles a escala planetaria, a la velocidad de un clic.Este libro se centra en detectar las claves creativas comunes que detonaron el contagio de 651 vídeos publicitarios entre los usuarios de las redes sociales digitales.A partir de un constructo analítico formado por drivers creativos, cepas virales y la variable ambigüedad, se propone la fórmula V = cc (d+c) + a, como base inspiradora para crear publicidad altamente contagiosa.

Download or read book The Civic Culture Revisited written by Gabriel A. Almond and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-05-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Almond and Verba focus their origional text and `subject its philosophy, its methodology, its national and comparative findings to searching critiques by appropriate scholars'.

Download or read book The Shared Space written by Milton Santos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book, Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization and spatial organization in underdeveloped countries are inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which is so badly needed. He describes the urban economy in these countries in terms of two circuits of activity – an upper circuit consisting of those enterprises and structures which are based on modern technology and are oriented towards the advanced capitalist world, and a lower circuit comprised of more traditional processes and forms of exchange. The dialectical interaction of these two circuits is seen to generate the patterns of growth, forms of State intervention and, above all, the spatial organization characteristic of Third World economies. This was a revision and translation of L’Espace Partagé (1975).

Download or read book Historia problema y promesa written by Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book For a New Geography written by Milton Santos and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography Originally published in 1978 in Portuguese, For a New Geography is a milestone in the history of critical geography, and it marked the emergence of its author, Milton Santos (1926–2001), as a major interpreter of geographical thought, a prominent Afro-Brazilian public intellectual, and one of the foremost global theorists of space. Published in the midst of a crisis in geographical thought, For a New Geography functioned as a bridge between geography’s past and its future. In advancing his vision of a geography of action and liberation, Santos begins by turning to the roots of modern geography and its colonial legacies. Moving from a critique of the shortcomings of geography from the field’s foundations as a modern science to the outline of a new field of critical geography, he sets forth both an ontology of space and a methodology for geography. In so doing, he introduces novel theoretical categories to the analysis of space. It is, in short, both a critique of the Northern, Anglo-centric discipline from within and a systematic critique of its flaws and assumptions from outside. Critical geography has developed in the past four decades into a heterogenous and creative field of enquiry. Though accruing a set of theoretical touchstones in the process, it has become detached from a longer and broader history of geographical thought. For a New Geography reconciles these divergent histories. Arriving in English at a time of renewed interest in alternative geographical traditions and the history of radical geography, it takes its place in the canonical works of critical geography.

Download or read book Harm Reduction Psychotherapy written by Andrew Tatarsky and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2007-06-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completely—the majority of users—reduce the harmful consequences of use. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the emphasis on abstinence as the only acceptable goal and criterion of success. Instead, smaller incremental changes in the direction of reduced harmfulness of drug use are accepted. This book will show how these simple changes in emphasis and expectation have dramatic implications for improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in many ways. From the Foreword by Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.: “This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. In his introduction, Andrew Tatarsky describes harm reduction as a new paradigm for treating drug and alcohol problems. Some would say that harm reduction embraces a paradigm shift in addiction treatment, as it has moved the field beyond the traditional abstinence-only focus typically associated with the disease model and the ideology of the twelve-step approach. Others may conclude that the move toward harm reduction represents an integration of what Dr. Tatarsky describes as the “basic principles of good clinical practice” into the treatment of addictive behaviors. “Changing addiction behavior is often a complex and complicated process for both client and therapist. What seems to work best is the development of a strong therapeutic alliance, the right fit between the client and treatment provider. The role of the harm reduction therapist is closer to that of a guide, someone who can provide support an

Download or read book Anthropometric Standardization Reference Manual written by Timothy G. Lohman and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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