Se evaluó la validez incremental de dos medidas de visomotricidad en relación a una medida de habilidad intelectual no verbal. Este aspecto no ha sido frecuentemente examinado en las investigaciones sobre estos constructos. Se usó el Test Gestáltico de Bender…

Based on theories about social identity, we study the moderating role of perceived group status across ethnicity and either psycho-social adjustment or discrimination. We applied a survey to a quasi-random sample of the main two immigrant groups of immigrants in…

Hindsight, plus trying to make sense out of incidents that took place within a timeframe full of violence generates massive arguments about their causes, who they should blame or about their victims. This article presents the results of a research…

We report the results of a qualitative piece of research conducted in the Bio-Bio Region of Chile, which aimed at studying how students perceive democracy and human rights when they finished their elementary education. It also looked into how they…

We present an analytic/relational study which, based on university students discourse, reconstructs social representations (SR) about equality in education, admission and adaptation to university life. We used qualitative research methodology, interviewing individuals and groups to a sample of 11 university…

The following study undertakes a psycho-sociological approach around the social representations of public safety, in order to make a contribution to and to delve - from the discourse level – into a notion of the concept of safety and crime…

El objetivo del presente artículo es analizar cómo usuarios y desarrolladores de software libre construyen un discurso sobre transformaciones sociales, a partir del reconocimiento de la diferencia entre los esquemas normativos del software privativo y los esquemas cognitivos del software…

The text discusses some of the theoretical perspectives for studying the social mobilizations from a cultural perspective. The first part is the diagnosis of the situation in the field of studies of social mobilization, I argued hegemony of structural and…

The goal of this article is to present a proposal for studying personal narrative identity, with information from autobiographies and life story interviews, developing the contributions of narrative analysis on the study of identity, especially in the field of clinical…

This paper analyzes the May 2010 mobilization of subcontracted workers of private mining company, located in the region of Tarapacá. Using contemporary sociological theories (Beck, Giddens, Sennett) as well as those of new social movements (resource mobilization theory and the…