Die Forschung zum Thema Konsum hat in den letzten Jahren ihren Fokus erweitert. Aktuelle soziologische Studien wiederum weisen vorwiegend zwei raumzeitliche und thematische Foki auf. Ersterer beleuchtet die sozialen und politischen Veränderungen in den nordamerikanischen und europäischen...

The purpose of the essay is twofold: a) explore the ability of S. Huntington's model of political development for societies in process of modernization to explain the Argentine political history in 1880-1955; b) prove the hypothesis that mass pretorianism is inherently unstable. We conclude the...

This essay explores in a socioeconomic crisis context whether the forms of articulating and disarticulating class and ethnicity in popular neighborhoods in Buenos Aires have changed. During the 90s, amidst increasing unemployment and social exclusion, and coupled with very few possibilities for...