Demands for care are met not only by professional care services but as well by family members and friends, especially by partners and children. These personal resources are not equally available to everyone. Moreover, there may be differences in preferences when choosing between alternative care...

Este artículo sigue el recorrido histórico del uso de metáforas visuales en las ciencias sociales y particularmente en la sociología. Se argumenta que el uso de este tipo de metáforas explica el discurso sobre la objetividad en las ciencias sociales.

This paper demonstrates the spatial evaluation of survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using geo-coordinates and spatially relevant indicators from remote sensing data. By geocoding the addresses of survey households with block-level geographic precision (while...

Union membership has declined precipitously in a number of countries, including in the United States, over the past fifty years. Can anything be done to stem this decline? This article argues that union voice is a positive attribute (among others) of union membership that is experiential in...

This article explores the current situation of Latin American studies in Austria, and the position they have within the country s university and scientific research system. On the basis of that analysis, conclusions are drawn about the main challenges that Austrian Latin Americanism faces, and...

This paper develops a hypothesis of the economist Albert Hirschman in: The Rhetoric of Reaction, Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (Harvard 1991) regarding the history of the Independence of Colombia. The Rhetoric of Independence extended the geographical worldview of the people of Spanish...