Postmodernism is a variety of meanings and definitions, is used to refer to many aspects of social life from musical forms and styles, literature and fine art through to philosophy, history and especially the mass media and consumer culture. Post modernism is a slippery term that is used by...

This paper is an introduction to the main themes of existence, composed as a synthesys between many themes, such as: DISTANCE, ABSENCE, WAITING and MEETING, situated between the theme of the first part, DEPARTURE, and the last part, EXIT. The themes are approached separately in essays, but also...

Most of the works dedicated to this subject depicts education as a process of shaping and forming the enlightened, moral and great good man. This image is blunted because it overlooks the processes of education or „re-education” has taken throughout history by many totalitarian regimes,...

The present study explored the risk behaviors for HIV transmission of adolescent and young female sex workers (FSW) from three large cities of Romania. A snowball sample of 300 FSW aged 13-24 years old identified the main risk factors for HIV infection, based on measures of association between...

This article presents the most important findings concerning the socialeducational needs as expressed by adolescents in kinship foster care (KFC) in the study carried out I+D SEJ-026575 in Spain between 2005 and 2008. The data for the study was collected from discussion groups with adolescents...

This article analyses the characteristics that social intervention projects should have so as to be considered a good practice in intercultural terms. A Good Intercultural Practice Scale has been designed and used on 139 social intervention projects developed in Andalusia (Spain) by diverse...

Interpersonal interactions are often based on information obtained about others, and in particular information about personality. Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that personality information has some value. The purpose of this study was to examine the assignment of value to information...

The paper presents a research applied from an appreciative approach that aimed to assess the use of generative strategies in self-support groups in a population affected by the armed political conflict in Colombia. The generative approach intends to build a notion of desirable and possible...

Fruitfulnes of contemporary companies rests on new business model development, elimination of communication obstacles, simplification of industrial processes, possibilities of responding in real-time and above all meeting the floating custom needs. Quite a number of company activities and...

A propose for this article is to present information on the emergence of the knowledge field of sociology of work and labor studies in Portugal. The period of 1974-1984 produced an interesting bibliography in the fields of social stratification, labor conflicts and social history. However, and...