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"En el secreto inefable de los corazones se hace todos los días un fatal sufragio que decide si una nación puede de verdad seguir siéndolo (... ). Una nación es a la postre una ingente comunidad de individuos y grupos que cuentan los unos con los otros. Este contar con el prójimo no implica necesariamente simpatía hacia él"
(José Ortega y Gasset, La España invertebrada, 1921).
¿En qué condiciones históricas el estado-nación llegó a...
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Andrei S. Markovits is Professor of Politics in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. Steven L. Hellerman is a sports journalist and a doctoral candidate at Claremont University's School of Politics and Economics.
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En los últimos años han sido numerosos los intentos de interpretar la deriva social, política y cultural de Occidente desde las ciencias sociales. Sin embargo, no ha sido tan frecuente abordar dicho análisis desde la producción y la construcción de los discursos de las grandes factorías de sentido, que no solo sirven para legitimar procesos como el de la desregulación sino que además modelan una subjetividad adaptada a un supuesto nuevo espíritu...
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Mala masti is a satellite dalit community that traditionally depends on the central Mala caste for its survival and sustenance. It is surprising to notice the paucity of works on such satellite-dependent castes in the Indian caste system. While the system itself is founded on structured inequalities drawn in to hierarchized and stratified arrangement, interestingly, the castes at the bottom too exhibit such a hierarchy. These satellite dalit communities...
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Estamos todos tan de vuelta de todo, tenemos tanta información, tantas opiniones, tanta ironía. No es fácil escribir un ensayo que descoloque y escandalice, que presente una idea novedosa e inesperada. Spufford lo ha conseguido con el argumento probablemente menos popular de nuestro tiempo: Creo en Dios, para mí el cristianismo tiene sentido y estoy harto de que ustedes, los ateos y agnósticos, se crean más listos que yo. Profesor de literatura,...
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#1 I was the quintessential class bully at St. Damian Elementary School. I took great pleasure in routinely tormenting my eighth-grade classmates. I was target of Jake's taunts that day.
#2 I had to fight Jake Reilly, a bully, in eighth grade. I didn't have any friends in Oak Forest, and I was alone against him and his cronies. I prayed one of the teachers would stop...
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#1 When I was six years old, my mother died. I was sent to spend a week with my grandmother. I was now old enough to begin to think about the future, and I asked myself what they would do with me. I felt sure I would never find another mistress as kind as the one who was gone.
#2 My mistress, who was a kindly woman, had taught me the precepts of God's Word. But when...
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#1 The Teleological Argument states that the universe must have been designed by an intelligent creator because it is too complex to have arisen by chance. However, many scientists and philosophers have shown that complex systems can arise without a designer.
#2 The idea of complexity by design is flawed because it assumes that all complex things require an intelligent...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Tanto para el análisis de la política contemporánea como para el estudio de las fronteras, la coyuntura marcada por la caída del muro de Berlín y el periodo subsiguiente seguirán siendo por mucho tiempo referencias obligatorias. El énfasis y el trasfondo de lo que ha venido sucediendo en las fronteras amazónicas, en otros países de América e incluso en Europa, durante las tres últimas décadas, así lo confirman. Este contexto global de...
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From a medical-scientific standpoint, madness is characterized as biophysical imbalances and neurological malfunctions that cause symptoms ranging from frenzied behavior to utter insanity. But from a sociological perspective, madness is rooted in multifaceted cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental circumstances that create imbalances, not in the biochemistry of the brain, but in the living conditions of individuals-and societies-that go mad by...
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#1 To find your power, you must first break through the delusions you are forced to ignore as a woman of color working in corporate environments. Delusions are so-called rules that have been set up around you. They are stories you have been told to make you believe and act a certain way.
#2 The truth is, Corporate America has never fostered true equity for women of color,...
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DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE Ideas, like blades of prairie grass, sprout in abundance everywhere. Equal at their inception, all of them have the potential to develop beneficially. From mere scribbled notes, to books blossoming from imprisoned authors, to worldly Montaignes, ideas can encourage us, even to flourish in inhospitable places. Ideas to fit our particular lives. Elementary thought, the ordinary, the eccentric, all are conditional at first. Cultivated...
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#1 The Broward County, Florida, school system began testing all second graders in 2005. As a result, the number of gifted African American children in the district skyrocketed 80 percent, and that of gifted Hispanic children skyrocketed 130 percent.
#2 The widespread belief that IQ limits are innate and permanent affects the lives of people like Edgar, who are...
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This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organizations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research program by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people's sense of agency in building the society that they want.
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#1 The German tombstone shortage is because the government controls death and funerals, and they require embalming before burial. This leads to a darkly humorous saying: If you feel unwell, take a vacation-you can't afford to die in Germany.
#2 Slavery is a great way to keep your costs down, but there is another reason why the granite is so cheap: the quarries...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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#1 Frazier's 1957 sociological study of the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie, was immediately controversial. It accused the Black middle class of being an insecure and powerless group constantly constructing a world of make-believe to deal with an inferiority complex caused by the brutal history of racial domination in the United States.
#2 The Black middle...
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Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the lower cost of shrimp, domestic shrimp fishers have suffered, particularly in Louisiana. Most of the shrimp that we eat today is imported from shrimp farms in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. The flood of imported shrimp has sent dockside prices plummeting, and rising fuel costs have destroyed the profit margin...
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