This article approaches the values underpinning derelict mining rehabilitation plans, their assessment in monetary terms, and reviews the empirical studies literature on this theme. The paper correspondingly contains four main aims. The first involves putting into perspective the thematic...

As well as in other social domains, neoliberalism has been invading education. This trend is leading to a general commodification and to the progressive substitution of some basic values, as the equality of opportunities, by efficiency and competitiveness. At the same time, education policies...

Este texto analisa os percursos de transição de jovens na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa com base em alguns resultados de um projecto de investigação. Os jovens tendem a ser mais afectados pelos efeitos negativos da flexibilização do mercado de trabalho. A transição para a vida adulta,...

This paper tries to shed light about the political dimension of workplace bullying through the quantitative analysis of work environment factors, like perceptions of organizational politics, work overload and internal competition, and the qualitative analysis of accounts of respondents to a...

Desenvolvimento tecnológico, globalização económica, concepção do salário como um custo de produção, perspectiva microeconómica do desemprego, processo de liberalização e de financeirização da economia, todos estes factores são considerados determinantes na redução do peso dos...

This work aims to discuss the theoretical perspectives interested in studying the relationship between organizations and their environment. First, the rational, mechanistic and closed system approach, ignores the existence of the relationship between organizations and environment and any kind of...

Due to the asymmetry, in recent decades, between the study of immigration and emigration in Portugal - the first was the subject of much greater attention by the academic community - and the imbalance between the statistical information about those flows - data on immigration are more plentiful...

Paul Veyne has suggested in 1971 that Sociology lacked a study object. Three quarters of a century after Durkheim’s Rules, it had yet to discover social types and orders of preponderant facts. At any rate, Veyne claimed, since Sociology or at least sociologists exist, we must conclude that,...

Education is reasonably expected to enhance intergenerational social mobility. However, the extent to which educational systems foster or otherwise constrain social mobility remains controversial. In this paper, data from the European Social Survey covering 22 countries is analysed in order to...

Several ideas taken seriously by the Portuguese economist, historian and social theorist Oliveira Martins (1845-94), and as such exposed in an academically respectable fashion, suffer a literary parody by his friend, the novelist Eça de Queirós (1845-1900), in his oriental novels, in a...