El orden social en la posmodernidad

El orden social en la posmodernidad
Author: Enrique Carretero Pasín
Publisher: Erasmus Ediciones
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2012-03-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8492806486

ESTE LIBRO EXPLICA CON PROSA CLARA CÓMO SE LEGITIMA HOY EL ORDEN SOCIAL Y ARROJA UNA MIRADA INNOVADORA PARA ENTENDER LAS IDEOLOGÍAS EN LA SOCIEDAD ACTUAL. El objetivo de este libro es replantear la noción de ideología a partir de la idea del imaginario social. Aunque esta haya sido abordada desde diferentes ángulos en el pensamiento sociológico actual, aquí el autor liga ambos conceptos (ideología e imaginario social) para, desde esta ligazón, descifrar la legitimación del orden en las sociedades actuales, desarrollando, así, una nueva propuesta para la crítica ideológica.

The Soul of the Nation

The Soul of the Nation
Author: Gregorio Alonso
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2024-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 180539598X

Religion and politics have historically clashed in modern Spain but the complexity of the controversial and sometimes violent relationships between Catholic values and modern political regimes continue to ride a precarious line of spiritual accommodation versus public policy. Leading experts on religious Spanish tradition and recent historiographic findings set out to define and interrogate grey areas in the last two centuries beyond the reductive conventional notion of an ever-warring "Two Spains." The Soul of the Nation unravels the role of religion in the country's public life following the imperial crisis of 1808 when the Catholic Monarchy put the role of the Church at heart of political and cultural debates.

Unamuno's Theory of the Novel

Unamuno's Theory of the Novel
Author: C.A. Longhurst
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351538209

Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is widely regarded as Spain's greatest and most controversial writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Professor of Greek, and later Rector, at the University of Salamanca, and a figure with a noted public profile in his day, he wrote a large number of philosophical, political and philological essays, as well as poems, plays and short stories, but it is his highly idiosyncratic novels, for which he coined the word nivola, that have attracted the greatest critical attention. Niebla (Mist, 1914) has become one of the most studied works of Spanish literature, such is the enduring fascination which it has provoked. In this study, C. A. Longhurst, a distinguished Unamuno scholar, sets out to show that behind Unamuno's fictional experiments there lies a coherent and quasi-philosophical concept of the novelesque genre and indeed of writing itself. Ideas about freedom, identity, finality, mutuality and community are closely intertwined with ideas on writing and reading and give rise to a new and highly personal way of conceiving fiction.

Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration

Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration
Author: Juan A. Roche Cárcel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030848388

This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creative categories of origin and the creative categories of originary. Within the former are creation myths, games – the origin of all cultural activity, the dialectic chaos-order, axial civilizations – the germ of our time, and the struggle between generations – a factor of social transformation, and, within the second, creative capitalism, creative work in the context of the global economy of risk and uncertainty, and representative democracy. However, these two concepts are not isolated, but deeply interrelated, in a way that explains how creative originality builds a temporal narrative. It has been dislocated in late modernity and, with it, creativity has been broken.

Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation

Routledge Handbook of Academic Knowledge Circulation
Author: Wiebke Keim
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 870
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100089732X

Knowledge is a result of never-ending processes of circulation. This accessible volume is the first comprehensive multidisciplinary work to explore these processes through the perspective of scholars working outside of Anglo-American paradigms. Through a variety of literature reviews, examples of recent research and in-depth case studies, the chapters demonstrate that the analysis of knowledge circulation requires a series of ontological and epistemic commitments that impact its conceptualisation and methodologies. Bringing diverse viewpoints from across the globe and from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology and Science & Technology Studies (STS), this wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection offers a broad and cutting-edge overview of outstanding research on academic knowledge circulation. The book is structured in seven sections: (i) key concepts in studying the circulation of academic knowledge; (ii) spaces and actors of circulation; (iii) academic media and knowledge circulation; (iv) the political economy of academic knowledge circulation; (v) the geographies, geopolitics and historical legacies of the global circulation of academic knowledge; (vi) the relationships between academic and extra-academic knowledges; and (vii) methodological approaches to studying the circulation of academic knowledge. This handbook will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in the circulation of knowledge.

Venezuela – Dimensions of the Crisis

Venezuela – Dimensions of the Crisis
Author: Miguel Angel Latouche
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2023-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3031218892

The book is devoted to the subject of Venezuela's politics and the different dimensions of its longstanding crisis, with various researchers exchanging ideas on the current problems affecting the country. It is the first comprehensive overview on the dimensions of Venezuela’s current crisis written in English, thus filling an important research gap. Especially the participation of international, well-known scholars make it a global enterprise. The book covers historical and theoretical facts surrounding the case of Venezuela and also focuses on the parties and actors that play decisive roles in the conflict. Subjects include the military, public administration, ideology, the opposition, the party landscape along with its crisis and Venezuela's oil policy. Furthermore the book touches upon international and regional aspects: Venezuela's diplomatic relations with the EU, the USA, Cuba and Colombia, respectively. The volume addresses a wider audience, such as scholars on Latin American and especially Venezuelan Politics, International Relations, as well as an interested public, including journalists and politicians.

Sociology in Mexico

Sociology in Mexico
Author: Gina Zabludovsky
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2023-12-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031420896

This open access book presents a condensed history of Sociology in Mexico from its origins, through to the middle of the 19th century and up to the present day. The book analyses the interaction between sociology and the main economic, political and social change in the country, including the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the main social movements, the role of the intellectual exiles from Spain and Latin America, and the participation of women, who have often remained invisible in the history of sociology. The book explores how sociological discourse played a fundamental role in the separation of secular and public education and the search for a ‘national project’ from 1868 onwards, despite the lack of an institute of social research until 1930; how sociology became an autonomous social science, led by a few intellectuals and public figures, as it became institutionalized in universities, and the effect this had on the development of the discipline; the influence of Marxism during the 1970s; and the progression from a process of specialization after the fall of the Berlin Wall to a new trend of working in collective projects with an increasing interdisciplinary perspective in the first decades of the 21st century.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 808
Release: 1982
Genre: Latin America
ISBN:

Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.

Chicano Scholars and Writers

Chicano Scholars and Writers
Author: Julio A. Martínez
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810812055

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Routledge Handbook of European Sociology

Routledge Handbook of European Sociology
Author: Sokratis Koniordos
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 113671121X

The Routledge Handbook of European Sociology provides over forty original, groundbreaking state-of-the-art accounts, each expert contribution teasing out the distinctively European features of the sociological theme it explores. The Handbook is divided in four parts: intellectual and institutional settings, regional variations, thematic variations, and European concerns.