Una Sociología para el Siglo XXI

Una Sociología para el Siglo XXI
Author: Michel Wieviorka
Publisher: Editorial UOC
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2011-07-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8497883888

Hay inmensas transformaciones que modifican el planeta y las herramientas disponibles para pensar estos fenómenos evolucionan a gran velocidad. En pocos años, mi generación de investigadores de ciencias sociales ha vivido el hundimiento del funcionalismo, el triunfo y después el declive del estructuralismo, el apogeo y el posterior debilitamiento del marxismo, los éxitos del interaccionismo simbólico, el aumento de poder de diversas variantes del individualismo metodológico, el regreso del tema del Sujeto, etc. En ello no hay una crisis, sino una mutación de nuestras formas de reflexionar y de abordar un mundo cambiante. Esta mutación afecta a todas las disciplinas del saber y no sólo a las ciencias sociales, pero éstas se sitúan en primera línea y son llamadas a jugar un papel esencial. El objetivo de este libro es, en primer lugar, realzar los instrumentos de análisis más prometedores. En segundo lugar, estudiar a la luz de dichos instrumentos fenómenos tales como los movimientos sociales, la diversidad, la memoria, la violencia, el terrorismo o, incluso, el racismo, con el fin de entender, en toda profundidad, el mundo en el que vivimos.

¿Qué es educación en el siglo XXI? Ensayos reflexivos sobre Educación, Sociedad y Política Educativa

¿Qué es educación en el siglo XXI? Ensayos reflexivos sobre Educación, Sociedad y Política Educativa
Author: Ana Belén Fernández Torres
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1291923217

¿Qué es educar? En una sociedad agitada por los cambios drásticos durante las dos últimas décadas, parece un auténtico desafío poder concretar qué vamos a enseñar a nuestros alumnos. No obstante, educar no es simplemente transmitir unos conocimientos predeterminados. Esta obra es una colección de reflexiones críticas sobre el procesos educativo y sus implicaciones en el siglo XXI.

An Introduction to Pablo González Casanova

An Introduction to Pablo González Casanova
Author: Jaime Torres Guillén
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2023-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000861988

This book is an introduction to Pablo González Casanova, giant of Latin American sociology. It examines his work across history, sociology, political science, and anthropology, exploring in depth his writings on the university, democracy, the new sciences, alternatives to capitalism, the humanities, equity with social justice, patriarchal domination, and the struggle for planet earth. This book provides insights into a foundational Latin American perspective on global realities. It argues that Pablo González Casanova contributes original elements for the construction of a critical theory in the social sciences and humanities of Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. With an enriching interdisciplinary perspective, this book will be of interest to scholars from a range of specialized interests in sociology, political science, philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, scientific epistemology, methodology, and critical thinking in the alternative field to capitalism.

Sociologies in Dialogue

Sociologies in Dialogue
Author: Sari Hanafi
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529726379

Sociologies in Dialogue brings together expert contributions from international scholars, who reflect on the importance of collaboration between diverse sociological perspectives to enhance our understanding of the role of sociology as an academic discipline, and as a vehicle for social change. By exploring the distinctive practices and research of a range of sociologists, the book shows how an open dialogue between sociologists is critical to addressing major sociological issues across the globe such as inequality and ethnocentrism, and challenging the hierarchies of knowledge production and circulation. Contributors also discuss novel strands in theory and methodology such as multicultural sociology, cosmopolitanism, and multiple modernities. An important contribution for researchers and students interested in global sociology, sociological theories and methodologies.

Liberating People, Planet, and Religion

Liberating People, Planet, and Religion
Author: Joerg Rieger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2024-05-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 153819404X

There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species but of humanity itself. As an increasing number of ecological economists have emphasized, these problems will only be adequately addressed by re-examining economic systems from an ecological perspective, fundamentally calling into question assumptions of unlimited growth and the maximization of shareholder profit foundational to neoliberal capitalism. Religion and ecology scholars have also increasingly emphasized the ways climate change challenges assumed divides between nature and culture, religion and labor, economy and ecology, and calls for critical and constructive engagement with the religion, economy, and ecology nexus. Often, though, religious engagements with economy and ecology have placed emphasis on individual morality, action, and agency at the level of consumption patterns or have suggested mere modifications within existing economic paradigms. Contributors to this volume call into question the adequacy of this approach in light of the urgency of climate change which is always ever entwined with ongoing patterns of exploitation, oppression, and colonialism in current economic systems. Rather than tweaking a system of exploitation, for instance by emphasizing individual consumption or care for human and non-human victims, these authors articulate important opportunities for religious engagement, activism, resistance, and solidarity around issues of production and labor. Recalling that Marx linked agencies and labor of people as well as the other-than-human world, these authors aim to articulate a sense in which liberation of people and the planet are intertwined and can be accomplished only through collaboration for their common good. The basic intuition driving this volume is that while Christianity has by and large become the handmaiden of exploitative capitalism and empire, it might also reclaim latent theologies and religious practices that call into question the fundamental valuation of labor without recognition or rest, of extractive exploitation, and a “winner take all” praxis. In the process, Christianity might reclaim and reinvest in tenuous historical materializations of transformed ecological and economic relationships while economics might be re-informed by a valuation of the shared oikos as well as a just accounting of and renumeration for labor. Together they might serve the aim of the flourishing of all people and the planet.

Education, Policy, and Social Change

Education, Policy, and Social Change
Author: Daniel A. Morales Gomez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 1992-09-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 031306721X

The purpose of this contributed volume is to examine the links among research, policy, and change in education in Latin America in the context of the relationships between the economy, politics, and the state in the 1980s. The case analyses will discuss the challenges these societies face in education in their progression towards the twenty-first century. In its various sections, the book addresses the following questions: How did education respond during the 1980s to the major sociopolitical and economic changes that affected these countries? How did the changes in the 1980s affect the relationships between education, society, and the state, and what lessons can be learned from the interaction between research and policy that may help in understanding the developmental role of education in the 1990s? And is educational research and policy helping to improve the social condition of minorities in Latin America? This volume will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in Latin American studies, educational research, education policy, and educational planning.

Key Texts for Latin American Sociology

Key Texts for Latin American Sociology
Author: Fernanda Beigel
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019-09-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526492660

Key Texts for Latin American Sociology is the first book to curate and translate into English key texts from the Latin American Sociological canon. By bringing together texts from leading sociologists in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Bolivia, and Uruguay, the book provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of issues in Latin American Sociology; drawing attention to embedded issues such as inequalities, identities, development, oppression and representation. This volume is the result of five years of collaboration between colleagues from 15 Latin American Countries, coordinated by Fernanda Beigel (CONICET, UNCuyo, Mendoza-Argentina) with the collaboration of the ′Key Texts Scientific Committee′, the Committee consists of the following members: Nadya Araujo Guimaraes (PPGS-USP, Brazil), Manuel Antonio Garretón (Universidad de Chile), Raquel Sosa Elizaga (CELA-UNAM, México), Jorge Rovira Mas (Universidad de Costa Rica), Breno Bringel (IESP-UERJ, Brazil), Joao Ehlert Maia (FGV, Brazil), Hebe Vessuri (IVIC, Venezuela), André Bothelo (UFRJ, Brazil), Carlos Ruiz Encina (Universidad de Chile), Eloisa Martin (UFRJ, Brazil), Sergio Miceli (PPGS- USP, Brazil), Alejandro Moreano (UCE, Ecuador), Elizabeth Jelin (CONICET-IDES, Argentina), Patricia Funes (UBA-CONICET, Argentina), Claudio Pinheiro (FGV, Brazil), Pablo de Marinis (UBA, CONICET, Argentina), Diego Pereyra (UBA, CONICET, Argentina), José Gandarilla Salgado (CIICH-UNAM, México), Juan Piovani (UNLP-CONICET, Argentina).

Researching Social Media with Children

Researching Social Media with Children
Author: Antonio Silva Esquinas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040095100

Reflecting on the methodological issues involved in researching digital spaces with children, this book shares good practices and delves into the ethics of such research. Social media has completely redefined how children and young people relate to each other, express themselves, and present their identities and sexualities. Yet researching social media can be a difficult and daunting task given the ephemerality of the content, its contextual hyperspecificity, the complex power relationships between users, celebrity culture, digital capitalism, and the ethical issues that arise from the reimagining of the public/private space. Using digital ethnography and creative digital storytelling workshops with children and young people aged 13-15 and 13-18 on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch, this book studies their interactions, language, codes, the risks they take, and the victimizations they suffer. Researching Social Media with Children will be of use to social scientists conducting online research, and to students and scholars of media studies, digital criminology, psychology, and sociology. [The authors draw on experiences from studies carried out in Spain on children and social media by the Knowledge-Research Group on Social Problems at Universidad Europea de Madrid.]

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America
Author: Xóchitl Bada
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2021
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190926554

The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.