In this work we use Cultural Studies to identify and understand the representations that are transmitted about the educational process in Chico Bento's stories - a character of a comic strip in Brazil. He is a personage who lives in…

Diversos estudios en historia, filosofía y sociología de la ciencia han mostrado que el carácter autónomo y valorativamente neutro de la ciencia y su búsqueda desinteresada de la verdad es, en el mejor de los casos, un mito ideal alejado…

Since March 2008, I have been in the artistic – community work of a cultural society in a slum in Londrina (Brasil), teaching belly dancing to five community leaders and, recently, to other young women too. This text was supposed…

This interview opens a whole range of questions and discourses about an increasingly discussed social category: immigration. It attempts to raise attention about the concept of contemporary migrations and its diffusion. Like any dialogue the interview transcend the limits that…

According to some definitions, the introduction of a paper, apart from exposing its objectives, should be the stimulant that generates interest in a deeper reading and a wider appraisal. With this definition in mind, I submit for this issue of…

A society that is characterized by the expansion of control devices can generate different analyses about how these collaborate to produce ways of living that are put in circulation in the social sphere. The present article attempts to make the…

Sexual harassment in the workplace is the main topic of this article, undertaken in response to the need to shed further light on a reality of undeniable interest and relevance that has become a major social problem in the labor…

This Thesis's summary explores the political and epistemological proposal that emerges from Free Software development made from Riereta.net. From the ethnography of this project, we analyse its contributions to knowledge production and to social studies of science and technology. This…

In this article we introduce the contributions of different authors to a critique of contemporary urban phenomena. We begin pinpointing both the relevance and the epistemic limits of the city in the frame of the social sciences. We then develop…

Understanding science as a device for producing ways of being and truth regimes, this literature review aimed to develop a critical reading of the Brazilian scientific production about parenthood, inspired by the post-constructionist approach to social psychology. The survey was conducted from the Bank of theses and dissertations for the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), from parenting descriptor, comprising the period 1987-2009. The…