Redes Sociales: teoría, métodos y aplicaciones en América Latina
Redes Sociales: teoría, métodos y aplicaciones en América Latina

Author: Francisca Ortiz Ruiz

Publisher: CIS

Published: 2023-11-23

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 847476906X

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El estudio sistemático sobre las redes sociales ha sido de gran interés en los últimos años para representar y entender complejos fenómenos sociales. Los científicos de redes, y quienes se dedican a analizar redes sociales, usualmente poseen una perspectiva común y utilizan métricas formales para explicar complejos fenómenos sociales más allá de su interpretación metafórica, concentrándose en las interacciones y relaciones sociales entre entidades sociales. En el mundo hispanoparlante, un grupo importante de investigadores han afianzado lazos para formar una comunidad de científicos de redes que participan activamente en las conferencias más relevantes sobre esta perspectiva de interés, mantienen un diálogo permanente a través de la «lista REDES», publican y se informan sobre esta área de interés en revistas tales como la Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales o en libros ya publicados en la editorial CIS. No obstante, pese a su consolidación en los últimos años y su rápido desarrollo, no hay tantos libros que introduzcan y den cuenta de desarrollos recientes del análisis de redes sociales y del tipo de preguntas substantivas que surgen en la producción empírica latinoamericana. Así, el objetivo general del libro es promover el uso del análisis de redes sociales en la comunidad hispanoparlante, mediante la discusión de aspectos teóricos y metodológicos. Además de ello, el libro busca ser un referente para la región sobre cómo realizar investigaciones sobre redes sociales, presentando estudios empíricos comparativos en Latinoamérica y estudios de casos en países específicos de la misma localidad. Este libro ofrece una visión general sobre el estado actual del campo de las redes sociales, útil para investigadores, profesores y estudiantes con interés en teoría social y métodos de investigación que quieran tener una visión crítica sobre los orígenes del campo y sobre el estado actual de esta área de estudio en las ciencias sociales. En total, el manuscrito cuenta con cuatro secciones: aspectos teóricos, aspectos metodológicos, estudios empíricos comparados en Latinoamérica y estudios de casos en países latinoamericanos.

Historical Dynamics
Historical Dynamics

Author: Peter Turchin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1400889316

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Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics--why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract--this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. Peter Turchin develops hypotheses from a wide range of social, political, economic, and demographic factors: geopolitics, factors affecting collective solidarity, dynamics of ethnic assimilation/religious conversion, and the interaction between population dynamics and sociopolitical stability. He then translates these into a spectrum of mathematical models, investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns. Turchin's highly instructive empirical tests demonstrate that certain models predict empirical patterns with a very high degree of accuracy. For instance, one model accounts for the recurrent waves of state breakdown in medieval and early modern Europe. And historical data confirm that ethno-nationalist solidarity produces an aggressively expansive state under certain conditions (such as in locations where imperial frontiers coincide with religious divides). The strength of Turchin's results suggests that the synthetic approach he advocates can significantly improve our understanding of historical dynamics.

Design Approaches and Tools in Education and Training
Design Approaches and Tools in Education and Training

Author: Jan van den Akker

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9401142556

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In our contemporary learning society, expectations about the contribution of education and training continue to rise. Moreover, the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) creates many challenges. These trends affect not only the aims, content and processes of learning, they also have a strong impact on educational design and development approaches in research and professional practices. Prominent researchers from the Netherlands and the USA present their latest findings on these issues in this volume. The major purpose of this book is to discuss current thinking on promising design approaches and to present innovative (computer-based) tools. The book aims to serve as a resource and reference work that will stimulate advancement in the field of education and training. It is intended to be useful in academic settings as well as for professionals in design and development practices.

Abortion and Democracy
Abortion and Democracy

Author: Barbara Sutton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1000404463

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Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.

Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas
Tierra Vacante en Ciudades Latinoamericanas

Author: Nora Clichevsky

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558441491

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Vacant urban land--the product of land market activity, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents--is an important challenge for policy makers. Vacant lots on the urban fringe and in central and interstitial areas have affected growth patterns in Latin America. Contributors to this book analyze the problems and opportunities related to vacant urban land in five cities: Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; Lima, Perú; and San Salvador, El Salvador.

International Community Psychology
International Community Psychology

Author: Stephanie Reich

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-03

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 0387495002

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This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.

Educating the Net Generation
Educating the Net Generation

Author: Diana Oblinger

Publisher: Educause

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780967285320

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This e-book offers an insightful look into the way today's students think about and use technology in their academic and social lives. It will help institutional leaders help their students to become more successful and satisfied.