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The main purpose of this article is to present some theoretical reflections on the characteristics, functions and importance of social epidemiology in traditional systems of information and surveillance of violence. With this objective, violence is addressed as a public health problem, which transcends numerical factors and converges with sociocultural and historical variables, incorporating theoretical and methodological aspects of social epidemiology. The results of this reflection allow us to contemplate both the relevance and the need for the agencies in charge of designing and putting into practice the information systems, to know in depth the proposals of social epidemiology. As a conclusion, this work proposes that the social problems of public health be  considered from the integral and collective perspective of the human processes posed by social epidemiology.

The aim of this article is to recompose some perspectives and focus that guide contemporary research around sex market. In that sense, I propose two axes in order to organizate the presentation. On the one hand, I present some contemporary keys and  coordinates as a current approach linked to the contemporary configuration of sex markets. On the other hand, I refer to perspectives that have contributed to know the plots of sex commerce in a located way. The review of the problems that these inquiries raise, which in general are usually dealt with in a dissociated way according to their  disciplinary correspondence with contemporary studies or in historical perspective, can contribute to an important dialogue enabling areas of inquiry based on new approaches or questions, as well as, the formulation of new problematic areas.

The objective of this article is to analyze the discourse of disability that is expressed in the Plenary Session of the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly, in order to identify those components that may be exclusionary and discriminatory for people with disabilities. Theoretical foundations and methodological categories of critical discourse analysis have been applied. The results show discriminatory and disparaging constructions towards people with disabilities by Legislative Assembly members.

  In the central topic entitled "State, territory and indigenous population", Carballo and Madrigal conducted a study in the Cabécar-Tayní indigenous population, located in the province of Limón, Costa Rica, to collect and analyze their views of the landscape from their stories of life and the aesthetics of the place, in order to understand the natural, environmental, cultural, ethnic and social spaces in which this population has developed. For its part, Engelman studies from the perspective of public policies, social dynamics of indigenous populations in the municipality of Almirante Brown of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (RMBA), Argentina, with the objective of documenting the process of visibility and organization local ethnopolitics of these organizations, which has allowed a greater political and ethnic presence, a positive vision of the indigenous and an  empowerment of the population. Barrera-Rojas, Sánchez-Carballo, Ruíz-Sánchez and Ruiz-Guevara, investigate the conditions of poverty faced by indigenous women in the Maya Zone of Quintana Roo, Mexico. For this research, they used three indicators of poverty: Extreme poverty line proposed by the World Bank, Minimum welfare line and Welfare line proposed by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy.

It article addresses the way in which the Argentine National State conceives and regulates specific territorialites within the framework of the social policies of the last decade, more especificaly, between the years 2008 to 2015. Based on a qualitative approach, which combines documental analisys and in-deep interviews, we enquiried into the nature of the State interventions on the territory, that took place following the national programme called “Plan Ahí”. The research claims that “Plan Ahí” is a governmental intervention that operates as an organizer model of the state practices, aimed at transforming the direction and meaning of territorial approach interventions, and to reverse the effects of a supposed State absence.

This paper presents rural youth`s practices and representations about their work and space mobilities in small producers families in Argentina. From an ethnographic methodology, the research was made from june 2016 to june 2017. The main contributions refers to invisibilization and gender inequalities at work and characterization of the daily spatial mobility between that they identify as antagonistic spaces: “the countryside” and “the city”.

What is the relationship of science with politics, on the one hand, and science with morals or values, on the other? Is theoretical thinking independent of the political thought of an author? Is a neutral social science possible? Is the search for objectivity in sociology lawful? Can science tell us what to do or how to organize? In the intellectual production of the three classical theorists in sociology we find dissimilar answers to these questions. This article compares the views on these problems, starting with the weberian consideration, and then comparing it with Durkheim and Marx.

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Cruzamos por una época en la que todo lo público está en cuestión y lo estatal aún más. No se trata de un cuestionamiento inocente. Proviene de una poderosa corriente ideológica que tomó fuerza en el mundo occidental a partir de las dos últimas décadas del siglo xx, denominada “nueva economía” y rebautisada popularmente como neoliberalismo la cual, a pesar de su evidente fracaso cuando se ha puesto en práctica, sigue posicionada en amplios sectores, a veces en forma inconsciente. Es una ideología, a pesar de autodefinirse como no ideológica. De hecho no hay postura, opinión, programa o proyecto público que carezca de ideología, si entendemos por ella la representación simbólica de la realidad. Cuando una ideología se vuelve dominante en forma aplastante, se auto proclama como la verdadera interpretación del mundo y califica a cualquier otra concepción como ideológica en sentido peyorativo: “mi pensamiento es la verdad, los otros pensamientos son ideología”. Lo cierto es que todos vemos e interpretamos el mundo a través de una ideología y negarlo permite proclamarse como la verdad a una ideología que adquiera por diversas circunstancias gran fuerza social en una coyuntura determinada. Hay que desconfiar de quien presume tener una perspectiva carente de ideología porque es muy probable que esté opinando desde la ideología dominante. Por el contrario, si aceptamos el hecho de que hay una ideología detrás de cada postura, el intercambio de opiniones, incluido el debate, transcurre en condiciones paritarias y se puede llegar hasta el fundamento de cada postura.