Este artículo sigue el recorrido histórico del uso de metáforas visuales en las ciencias sociales y particularmente en la sociología. Se argumenta que el uso de este tipo de metáforas explica el discurso sobre la objetividad en las ciencias sociales.

This tale of a "voyage" expects to bring closer an international co-operation experience in Morocco, in the field of neighborhoods whole enhancing, by generating knowledge for habitat related project assessment. This attempts to pull down the strongest "basic" principles, the deepest rooted...

Besides a fundamental right, strike is an important tool available to the working class to demand better working conditions, or express their dissatisfaction toward political or business decisions. Therefore, the fact that a strike is called should be a matter for the media to exert a profound...

This paper presents a brief story about the initial development of the capitalism in Chile emphasizing on the structural conditions that would have given as a result new social and political actors (industrial bourgeoisie and proletariat). This process should have been the basis if a deep...

The present article that comprises of other studies of the same author (Sousa, E. 2009), tries, with the obstacles of the study case, to propose an interpretation, of the form of beginning deed of the peripheral expansion in the cities, from a metropolitan center; taking as the study case the...

Human rights are powers or facilities granted or recognized as inherent to individuals and human groups, so they can claim from other individuals or groups, and at the extreme from public authorities (local, regional, national or international), specific actions and services necessary to a life...

Any conventional poverty line, determined from the purchase power standard ought to establish distinctions inside the essential expenditures, defining that poverty line, in the urban space as well as in the countryside. Migration flows toward cities are the result of employment composition....

In Spain, one of the most innovative content of the IX Legislature has been the exercise of parliamentary control by the Congress of Deputies on Peace and Reconstruction Operations performed abroad by the Armed Forces, who plays a key role in promoting values for peace, humanitarian aid and...

The city of Cadiz is a good case to illustrate the way geographical placement and geological becoming can determine social space distribution within the city. Due to its religious vocation and its bourgeois and bureaucratic tradition, this city has a very remarkable social class factor. This is...

This work has the purpose of offering a first conceptual proposal on the new challenges in the formation of architects considering the impact of the sustainability. They offer some reflections starting from theoretical positions and of an analysis of the current context; they allow to identify...