La racionalidad ampliada e integradora aplicada a los estudios sociales y a las ciencias ambientales

Los cambios de paradigma en las ciencias sociales generan polémicos debates a la hora de la decisión entre diversos modelos de investigación en los niveles epistemológicos y metodológicos Desde este trabajo se intenta describir y justificar la complementariedad de los enfoques epistemológicos y la pluralidad metodológica para un mejor abordaje de la compleja problemática de las ciencias sociales contemporáneas y del complejo objeto de los estudio ambientales. Mediante las nuevas epistemologías se pueden justificar apropiadas decisiones en la elección de los modelos y el pluralismo metodológico que permite abordar los diversos campos con que se relaciona la complejidad problemática del objeto

LA RACIONALIDAD ECONÓMICA EN NUEVA PERSPECTIVA

Las amenazas a la vida en el planeta, los hechos que han “asaltado al dogma económico” (Daly y Cobb, 1993) tienen mucho que ver con una doble toma de conciencia en la sociedad contemporánea. La primera, sobre lo restringida y esterilizante que resulta una visión economicista para enfrentar los problemas que más preocupan al ser humano hoy: las heridas infligidas al ecosistema, el aumento de la pobreza y la desigualdad, y el crecimiento desproporcionado de la actividad humana en relación a las posibilidades de la biosfera.La segunda, implicada en la anterior, la de darse cuenta que esa limitación está asociada al concepto de suyo estrecho y parcial de racionalidad económica. Enfrentamos aquí el problema del reduccionismo transmitido en el discurso y en la práctica misma de la disciplina económica que, sin embargo, no es exclusivo de ésta ni es atribuible sólo a deficiencias internas de los profesionales que la practican. Existe toda una larga tradición dentro de la cual se ha ido reduciendo de manera progresiva el concepto de razón humana y se ha ido produciendo ese concepto estrecho de racionalidad del que ahora la humanidad realiza esfuerzos por librarse.

RACIONALIDAD, ÉTICA Y BIENESTAR: Estudios de ética de la economía en la perspectiva de Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen, se considera a sí mismo como “uno más” de los economistas de la corriente principal quien, tan sólo, ha intentado llamar la atención del resto de sus colegas sobre la existencia de problemas a los que pocas veces dedican su análisis (Swedberg, 1990: 259). Sin embargo, al recorrer las páginas de sus numerosos libros y artículos nos llama la atención un tratamiento de la disciplina económica que no es, para nada, reflejo de la imagen habitual de los profesionales de la tendencia dominante en la economía. No que no maneje los conceptos y la lógica fundamental de ésta. Todo lo contrario. Su exquisita formación demuestra conocimiento de la tradición neoclásica, una capacidad en el uso de la formalización matemática, y un dominio de la econometría, que no le dejan a la zaga de ningún otro economista de los que definen el panorama actual de la profesión.Sin embargo, lo sorprendente en él, es que no se limita a moverse en el ámbito definido por los intereses de la corriente principal, sino que se pasea con comodidad en el conocimiento de los clásicos y trasciende los límites habitualmente considerados como fronteras de la economía, para utilizar instrumentos analíticos de lo que algunos pudieran considerar sociología, así como para profundizar en el campo filosófico.

Siete tesis sobre racionalidad, identidad y acción colectiva

En este trabajo se presentan dos corrientes distintas de la teoría de la elección racional y se analiza cómo abordan la relación entre identidad social y acción colectiva. Se verá, por un lado, que para la teoría externista de la elección racional el concepto de identidad carece de valor explicativo y es reducible a meras preferencias reveladas. Por el contrario, para la teoría internista de la elección racional la identidad no sólo contribuye a explicar la acción colectiva, sino que permite que los modelos den cuenta de las motivaciones expresivas de los actores sociales. Partiendo de una postura claramente internista el artículo se cierra con una propuesta de definición de la identidad como una red de creencias sobre uno mismo.

Modelos de acción colectiva: modelos de cambio social

El autor realiza una crítica interna de la teoría analítica de la acción colectiva, tal y como fue formulada por Mancur Olson, mostrando que tanto la racionalidad individual como la colectiva pueden funcionar de forma "perversa" o de forma socialmente beneficiosa, dependiendo del contexto.

[the Teaching Of Social Sciences In Health: Between Practice And Theory].

The models of teaching social sciences and clinical practice are insufficient for the needs of practical-reflective teaching of social sciences applied to health. The scope of this article is to reflect on the challenges and perspectives of social science education for health professionals. In the 1950s the important movement bringing together social sciences and the field of health began, however weak credentials still prevail. This is due to the low professional status of social scientists in health and the ill-defined position of the social sciences professionals in the health field. It is also due to the scant importance attributed by students to the social sciences, the small number of professionals and the colonization of the social sciences by the biomedical culture in the health field. Thus, the professionals of social sciences applied to health are also faced with the need to build an identity, even after six decades of their presence in the field of health. This is because their ambivalent status has established them as a partial, incomplete and virtual presence, requiring a complex survival strategy in the nebulous area between social sciences and health.

[almost An Autobiography: A Study Of Social Scientists In Health Based On The Lattes Curriculum].

Among the various ways of adopting the biographical approach, we used the curriculum vitaes (CVs) of Brazilian researchers who work as social scientists in health as our research material. These CVs are part of the Lattes Platform of CNPq - the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, which includes Research and Institutional Directories. We analyzed 238 CVs for this study. The CVs contain, among other things, the following information: professional qualifications, activities and projects, academic production, participation in panels for the evaluation of theses and dissertations, research centers and laboratories and a summarized autobiography. In this work there is a brief review of the importance of autobiography for the social sciences, emphasizing the CV as a form of autobiographical practice. We highlight some results, such as it being a group consisting predominantly of women, graduates in social sciences, anthropology, sociology or political science, with postgraduate degrees. The highest concentration of social scientists is located in Brazil's southern and southeastern regions. In some institutions the main activities of social scientists are as teachers and researchers with great thematic diversity in research.

Juan César García: Social Medicine As Project And Endeavor.

This paper analyses some aspects of the trajectory of the Argentinian physician and sociologist Juan César García (1932-1984) in the field of Latin American Social Medicine. Three dimensions constituting his basic orientations are highlighted: the elaboration of systematic and reflective social thought; a critical attitude in questioning teaching and professional practices; a commitment to the institutionalization and dissemination of health knowledge.

Brazilian multicentre study of common mental disorders in primary care: rates and related social and demographic factors

Mental health problems are common in primary health care, particularly anxiety and depression. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of common mental disorders and their associations with socio-demographic characteristics in primary care in Brazil (Family Health Strategy). It involved a multicenter cross-sectional study with patients from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Fortaleza (Ceará State) and Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul State), assessed using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD). The rate of mental disorders in patients from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Fortaleza and Porto Alegre were found to be, respectively, 51.9%, 53.3%, 64.3% and 57.7% with significant differences between Porto Alegre and Fortaleza compared to Rio de Janeiro after adjusting for confounders. Prevalence proportions of mental problems were especially common for females, the unemployed, those with less education and those with lower incomes. In the context of the Brazilian government's moves towards developing primary health care and reorganizing mental health policies it is relevant to consider common mental disorders as a priority alongside other chronic health conditions.

Identidade social e auto conceito do dançarino em cadeira de rodas

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Procurando o lazer no Constituinte : sua inclusão como direito social na Constituição de 1988

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Crescimento e desempenho motor em pre-escolares de Itapira SP : um enfoque bio-social-cultural

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

Etno Desporto indigena : contribuições da antropologia social a partir da experiencia entre os Kaingang

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Transformação corporal e representação social na adolescencia

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Long-term social recognition memory in adult male rats: factor analysis of the social and non-social behaviors

A modified version of the intruder-resident paradigm was used to investigate if social recognition memory lasts at least 24 h. One hundred and forty-six adult male Wistar rats were used. Independent groups of rats were exposed to an intruder for 0.083, 0.5, 2, 24, or 168 h and tested 24 h after the first encounter with the familiar or a different conspecific. Factor analysis was employed to identify associations between behaviors and treatments. Resident rats exhibited a 24-h social recognition memory, as indicated by a 3- to 5-fold decrease in social behaviors in the second encounter with the same conspecific compared to those observed for a different conspecific, when the duration of the first encounter was 2 h or longer. It was possible to distinguish between two different categories of social behaviors and their expression depended on the duration of the first encounter. Sniffing the anogenital area (49.9% of the social behaviors), sniffing the body (17.9%), sniffing the head (3%), and following the conspecific (3.1%), exhibited mostly by resident rats, characterized social investigation and revealed long-term social recognition memory. However, dominance (23.8%) and mild aggression (2.3%), exhibited by both resident and intruders, characterized social agonistic behaviors and were not affected by memory. Differently, sniffing the environment (76.8% of the non-social behaviors) and rearing (14.3%), both exhibited mostly by adult intruder rats, characterized non-social behaviors. Together, these results show that social recognition memory in rats may last at least 24 h after a 2-h or longer exposure to the conspecific.