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…

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…

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…

An important form of transmission of knowledge about the Spanish nation is based on the continuous telling of stories in which the nation features as a suprahistorical, perennial entity. Myths of national origin, golden-age legends, and epics of national heroes…

En este texto planteo diversas modos de caracterizar la sociedad del conocimiento, entendida como una hipótesis, un punto de partida, que puede ayudarnos a entender la realidad social contemporánea tras la crisis de la modernidad que es visible a partir…

Se pretende en este trabajo mostrar la gran utilidad que para el conocimiento psicosociológico del ser humano tendría el estudio de las relaciones entre la Psicología Social y la Literatura. En efecto, todo análisis psicosocial de la novela, por una…

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…

This article finds fault with three practices in  social psychology. The first, interpretative condescension, is visible in social psychology's use of the “person” as a term, concept, notion, and so on. Generally, “persons” are taken to be “cultural dopes”, for…

The imperative to develop has a long history of criticisms and adjustments since its genesis after World War II. In spite of this, as I argue here, we continue situating ourselves inside the imaginary of development, reproducing its classifications and…