Academic freedom poses an important problem in the current higher education system, which has an European scope. As it has been granted as a fundamental human right in all countries belonging to the so-called "common area", academic freedom exercise opposes to specific features in the regulation...

Structural violence is rarely seen as a form of genocide. Significant deficiencies in existing conceptualizations of both genocide and structural violence suggest that this is unwarranted. The concept of genocide must be expanded to include a wider variety of target human groups, whereas the...

This paper presents a brief story about the initial development of the capitalism in Chile emphasizing on the structural conditions that would have given as a result new social and political actors (industrial bourgeoisie and proletariat). This process should have been the basis if a deep...

The current financial crisis, hitting the very nucleus of capitalist metropolis and placing its roots and causes at the spheres (financial and commercial ones) that have been privileged by neo-liberals, is another sample of the scarce or nonexistent viability of neo-liberal projects, having in...

What would happen if every individual knew what to do, and did, without prompting or expecting a reward? Is that not what the authors of Republic and Utopia had in mind? Is that not the primary justification of theocracies? The immediate objection to that postulate is that human nature is not...

This work intends to contribute to post-capitalism debate, by mean of an historical approach. Influent Features and Variables are analyzed in relation to transition processes toward post?capitalism. In post-capitalist rationality, priority is given to political issues above economic ones and...

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.

The central aim of this investigation es our own poverty, it is a South side perspective (Africa or Latin-America). However, we do not advocate for an empirical research; we analyze theories intending to explain from the North such an economic reality. Theories, as logic-deductive bodies, can't...

Since there is no definition of "terrorism" upon which all the world nations agree, this article proposes to approach the phenomenon on the basis of normative concepts widely recognized by social scientists. We think the issue would be more manageable if we use terms like "deviance" and...

Theories, as logic-deductive bodies, can not be taken isolated from the thinking context where they are developed. Philosophical and ethic basis supporting them make necessarily part of the logical structure, although, they could not be explicitly declared. Te chaining between ethic principles,...