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Opposite to the great collective rituals and the transcendent meaning granted by traditional communities, Modernity would have reduced death to silence and transformed the act of dying into a solitary and institutionalized process. Nevertheless, in the last decades a new model of death could be emerging in our societies: the neo-modern model, since it doesn't question the central role of the sanitary system in the management of death, but tries to correct the gaps that the latter didn't achive to satisfy. Death would thus gradually return to the public space, but in a fragmented and decentralized way, as a set of scattered practices and discourses that would have in common a renewed interest in talking about death and dying. In this article I intend to verify the possible presence of the neo-modern model of death in a series of very different cultural products and practices. I will discuss whether all of them have a common thread in the neo-modern model or if, as other authors claim, they are rather a product of the tendency towards media hyper-transparency and the search for strong sensations typical of the consumerist society. I also examine some criticisms to the model and its internal contradictions. I conclude by trying to anticipate future trends in the way of dying in light of the evidence presented. 

This article lays out a proposal with which to produce discursive raw material, as well as its analysis with which to account for the articulated discursive positions, which form a relational structure and not a mere repertoire of testimonies or opinions on the problem that is object of study. For this purpose, the theoretical-conceptual in addition to the methodological-technological aspects are presented, along with, with the purpose of exemplifying the proposal, some contents of a research are offered to show the discursive positions on the social representations that childhood has of the adult population. 

In this article we will assess the heterogeneity in the processes of transition to adult life by comparing two periods of different economic conjuncture: the period prior to the crisis and in the years in which it is possible to consider the beginning of the exit from the economic crisis. Through the entropy index, the degree of complexity will be measured, overlap or simultaneity of the different status or states that structure the process of transition to adult life (student, active, emancipated, as a couple and to be parents) and attending to various factors or variables such as age, sex and risk of poverty. With this indicator it will be possible to build sequences to verify the end of the transition, located by specialized bibliography at the apex of entropy or age at which the maximum heterogeneity is observed. 

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This article develops a research proposal on abortion from a socio-subjective perspective and focused on the analysis of discourses. Its structure is composed of three parts: 1st) The general lines of approach to the phenomenon of abortion are exposed, as a phenomenon that involves a plurality of social dimensions and that has a series of definable historical "properties". 2nd) It is made explicit, in greater detail, what is the subjective proposal of abortion and what is its place and relevance in relation to other approaches to it. 3rd) A methodological proposal of approach supported by discourse analysis and articulated through the elaboration of “spaces of points of view” and non-directive interviews is offered. Likewise, some questions of important consideration regarding the specific methodology to be developed in the practical research process are determined more concretely. 

This paper is a theoretical reflection on the origin and evolution of "active ageing" as a political framework at the international level since the end of the last century, and its institutional influence in Europe and Spain currently. Likewise, this concept is related to similar ones that show the importance of policies and programs to improve the quality of life among older people in ageing societies. As a result of this research, other significant terms of the socio-demographic context confirm the increasing weight of the population of people over 65 as senior citizen, and the new social roles of older adults as agents of welfare and intergenerational solidarity. Thus, senior citizenship is present and future in changing societies where a new social contract of individual and vital responsibility will be necessary to cope the political, economic, technological and demographic challenges. 

Agenda 21 is a project aimed to promote the local environmental sustainability with the support and suggestions provided by citizen engagement. It had a time of splendor during the decade of the 2000s and became a space with a vast potential in order to develop practices that can lead to increase democratic involvement through participatory co-production of public policies, in this case, regarding local planning from a view point environmental and sustainable. IAP, as a participatory methodology, is an epistemological proposal that fits perfectly with Agenda 21 implementation, from an approach that goes beyond a purely advisory, formal or instrumental involvement. However, in many of the Agendas 21 developed in our country, this kind of methodological, transforming and engaging proposals have not been used, and therefore, citizen participation was a complementary element to the technical and political work without becoming the bedrock of the process, in the articulating basis that gives meaning to everything else. This article is addressed to highlight the relevance of the citizen participation in the local planning of environmental sustainability since this is the very hearth of the Agenda 21 target and the relevance of IAP as the proposed methodology to achieve it, in view of the necessity of promoting the public participation and engagement to foster the ecological sustainability of the lands. The key issue raised is the kind of the strategies that may be enforced in order to put such attempt into practice. In the Agendas 21 where we have applied the IAP, is taking place a social construction of knowledge aimed to promote to social changes through the work with associations, neighborhood groups, technicians and institutional representatives with various interests and sensibilities, prioritizing the mobilization of citizen participation in order to encourage social creativity. The methodological features of this Agenda 21 are the specific traits of the IAP adaptations made during the process in its three stages (diagnosis, planning and execution) which are evident in the implemented technical elements.  

The results of a study carried out in Coatepec are presented in this study, which were based on a previous research conducted in Teocelo. Both municipalities are located in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Veracruz. The Coatepec research had complications related to the management of solid urban waste. However, the Teocelo study has been a successful case of integral management since 2001. The main goal of the study was to examine the attitudes of Coatepec residents about the change in environmental behavior related to public policies, in particular the separation of waste,as well as to gather their opinions on the quality of municipal management in terms of public cleanliness. In the methodologyl, a Likert scale was applied to 108 individuals, with questions associated to attitudes in their conative, cognitive and affective components. Findings showed that participants are highly motivated to separate waste and contribute in the transformation process. Furthermore, they expressed a negative opinion on street cleaning in Coatepec. Finally, citizens strong interest on establishing a program of integral management of urban solid waste in their municipality persists. They want a similar one to that applied on Teocelo. In conclusion, it is vital for inhabitants and the government to team up and work together in matters of public cleanliness. Citizenship takes action in waste separation or shows intentions to do so, being aware of the waste issues in its first level of separation (organic and inorganic). The attitudes analysis, conducted in its conative, cognitive and affective dimensions, points out what is missing in the population regarding waste separation and good management of solid waste from the individual, collective and political representatives level. This is the baseline towards designing strategies for strategic planning and environmental education. 

The municipal elections of 2015 gave a boost, in País Valencià, to the participation policy. In the agendas of the parties of the entire ideological spectrum, the need to activate citizen participation and transparency was mentioned. After the elections, these intentions materialized in the institutional consideration of bodies such as the councils of participation, areas or services. It is from this realization that the Cátedra Gobierno Abierto, Participación Ciudadana y Open Data promoted by the Conselleria de Transparencia, Responsabilidad Social, Participación y Cooperación de la Generalitat Valenciana and the Universitat de València aims to carry out qualitative research that provides us with information on the processes of inclusion and boosting citizen participation in social policies at the local administration level. In this paper we present the results of the analytical exercise that we have carried out within the framework of this qualitative research: to compare the discourses on the impulse of participation policies at the local level coming from institutional agents (what we have called institutional participation), with the basic precepts of the PRA as a method. The research presented here has, since its inception, looked at the Autonomous Community as a unit of analysis. Fifteen semi-structured interviews have been conducted with local political actors from the areas of citizen participation in Castellón, Alicante and Valencia City Councils. The analysis of qualitative material points to some barriers and confusions, both regarding the concept of participation itself and the lack of consideration of PRA as a process, which emerge as limitations for the implementation of participation policies at the local level. The conclusion that can be drawn points to the need to articulate a model of participation for the País Valencià.