Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

Our object of study is the aplication in Andalusia of rents garantee programs, since the appearence of the first, known as Ingreso Mínimo de Solidaridad (Solidarity Minimum Income), to nowadays. They are a kind of action included wtihin the policies for the eradication of marganility and unequality and in benefit of family units. In this article we try to explore the history and current reality of rents garantee programs within their aplication in Andalusia trough the analysis of the historical context and the tendencies on unequality which gave place to and justified this intervention programs, plus the profiles of their beneficiaries. We try as well to give a first aproach to evaluating the extent those programs have achieved or are achieving their manifested objectives. That means, we try to find out how much they contribute to the effective eradication of marginality and unequality in Andalusia

The purpose of this article is to urge the researcher or the public policy maker to make a necessary reflection before facing the analysis of poverty: any possible appreciation of this phenomenon is a neutral question. Urge to be aware of how the symbolic, ideological and paradigmatic elements structure the conception of poverty, with practical consequences. The adopted concepts guide its analysis and measurement, as well as the political interventions to face it. Therefore, at once, they create a material reality that feeds back the social representations of poverty and the attitude of the Administration and Society towards it. In this sense, the concept of poverty is a social construct resulting from a specific historical context, as well as a constructor of materiality. In the last decades, the consensus on poverty has changed from purely economic conceptions to more comprehensive, multidimensional and multidisciplinary approaches. Keywords: poverty, study, concept, measurement, multidimensional, multidisciplinary, representations, social imaginaries, discourses, paradigms, symbolic fields, public policies, social policies.

This article intends to reclaim the theorization of philosophers León Rozitchner and Santiago López Petit around the issues of discontent and ailments generated by the capitalist mode of production among the subjects constituted under its logic. Grounded on the work of these authors, I will analyze some characteristic elements of what the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman called “the passage from a solid to a liquid modernity,” paying special attention to the effects of said passage in contemporary modes of subjectivation. The purpose of the work is set within the search for some elements that stimulate the political imagination when facing and dealing with current ailments. In this sense, both the Argentinian and the Catalan philosopher will be theoretical inputs, not only for the description of the discomfort produced by the logic of capital, but also for the reverse of a possible praxis, that is, the politicization of discontent.

Couples at the beginning of their marital relationship present high levels of satisfaction, however, due to the dedication to raising their children, this can go into the background, and as a consequence, decrease over the years. This study sought to analyze the experiences of the marital relationship during the empty nest stage of Colombian couples, through a phenomenological investigation that implemented dialogical, participatory and contextualized strategies in a total of 17 participants: 9 women and 8 men. The results describe the discursive orders on how some marriages reach this stage with a high or low level of marital satisfaction. Satisfied and dissatisfied people do not usually express affection and admiration verbally, they usually do it with actions; dissatisfied men want women to request their attention and they don't and they think that the children were the center of their aspirations and now it doesn't make sense to continue together; dissatisfied women see the empty nest as an opportunity to think of themselves because the children are gone. Satisfied men and women over the years have learned to calm down in conflicts, women believe that both must win in an argument, and they accept the influence of their wives. It is concluded that this stage of the life cycle implies several learnings and adjustments in marital relationships, which are directly related to: in satisfied couples, the feeling of valuing and caring for each other more because the two of them are alone assuming this new experience; and in unsatisfied couples, the feeling of being together but without finding a clear meaning for it; they recognize that they centered their married life on their children and that at this stage it has not been easy to find each other again as couples.

The article presents the results of the investigation on the social representations of post-conflict and peace in members of the Colombian Military Forces, in which the qualitative design was used with the interview technique. Social representations were found related with the post-conflict as an opportunity to build peace; with the reduction of violence as a means to improve the lives of citizens and reinstated members of the FARC; with an institutional reform; and with peace as a challenge in the way the Military Forces facing new roles and functions in the post-conflict. In conclusion, the commitment to peace as a right and the need to build the post-conflict society, has been highlighted in these representations.

This article examines the work deployed by Colombian ministry offices during 2016 in order to reduce corruption. To do so, we reviewed and compared the corruption risk matrices prepared by the 16 existing ministries for 2016 and 2017 and the audit reports of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) for these entities, also for the 2016 term. NVivo 12 Plus software was used to achieve this objective, where 773 processes were analyzed through 9 categories. In conclusion, corruption risk matrices could be effective at preventing corruption. However, in practice, they are not currently fulfilling this role due to various causes, among which are the differences between the results obtained in the corruption risks matrices prepared by the ministries and the findings reported by the CGR, which, although do not constitute acts of corruption, are inputs to carry out fiscal responsibility processes.

This study aims to describe the transformations of lexicons of collective identification in Chile through different expressions of political discourse: constitutional texts, presidential speeches and partisan declarations. A content analysis of 58 documents from Chilean political history was carried out. The results show significant differences in the use of the state lexicon, the republican lexicon, the patriotic lexicon, the national lexicon and the popular lexicon, among others, depending on both the sociohistorical context and the genre of political discourse. It can be concluded that in the Chilean political discourse there are complex articulations of the different vocabularies of political identification, more than an exclusively nationalist identification; in this sense, the ideological recourse to the national lexicon only increased with the crisis of the liberal parliamentary State, in which a normative understanding around the republican lexicon was more frequent.

The so-called postrationalist approach emerges against the way in which traditional cognitivism conceptualizes the relationship between subject and reality. Defining the self as a bio-psychological phenomenon, Vittorio Guidano’s proposal has become the most popular formulation of the model. Unfortunately, the sudden passing of Guidano left several conceptual issues opened within the model. After identifying the main aspects of the approach, this paper identifies two moments in Guidano’s model. (i) The first stage, strongly influenced by constructivism and traditional enactivism, defines the self as emerging in the recursive relationship between organism and environment defined by the need for survival. We shall call this moment Guidano 1. This stage has been the target of most literature on the topic. (ii) The second stage (Guidano 2) is the product of a turn towards existential-phenomenology. Here, the relationship between self and reality is not only organized around survival, but also, around the sense of the organism’s own existence. Importantly, this later moment has been largely neglected in the literature, so, after critically examining it, we conclude by clarifying the type of phenomenological analysis that would guide clinical practice from the perspective of the second moment in the model.

In this paper we explore some epistemological discussions about big data. As our main epistemological concept, we use the notion of Epistemic Framework formulated by Piaget and García, and reviewed by us in more recent works, which seeks to problematize the conditioning of ethical and political values, as well as other regulations, in the development of scientific knowledge. We propose to order the debates in the recent literature on big data through various dualities, such as data/interpretation, automatic/non-automatic, or causality/correlation, around which it is possible to view two specific epistemic frameworks, tending to split these terms, or to their integration. On this last mode of focusing the debates, we identify some epistemological challenges of research with big data, especially in the computational social sciences.

Qualitative social research has systematically dispensed with the use of accessible and shared empirical referents from which to agree on the production and analysis of the speech under study. From this deficit, what this work does is to analyse the problem of speech used as empirical material for observation from the point of view of scientific work. To this end, we study the importance of the communicability of the observations produced and their analysis from the problems posed by the deictic function of the speech observed in research. The conclusion of the paper suggests the need to agree and introduce an object referent in the experimental observation situation to make effective both the communicability of the research actions, and the reception and circulation of the observed speech among the different communities of speakers and discursive systems.