Giving guilt: the aneconomy of law and justice

The concept of guilt is seen here as debt beyond repayment. Following Derrida, the gesture of giving is placed in the economy of gift, an aneconomical gift that is not part of the exchange cycle. At the same time, guilt is linked to desire, the desire to give and to be free from guilt. Desire is described as the urge to cross over, to apprehend the non-identical and to give oneself away. In this reinforced crossing, where the improbability of giving conditions the improbability of reaching out, guilt and its impetus are found locked up in claustrophobic self-reference. For this reason, the author consults Kierkegaard and Luhmann whose contributions show that the gesture of giving acquires its relevance not so much on account of its recipient, but precisely because of the absence of such a recipient. The combination of an absent recipient and an absented giver fills the gift with an emptiness that can only be channelled back upon itself, in the autopoietics of guilt. This is exactly the fate of the law, which can deal with the guilty but never with guilt (in the above sense). In its attempt to give away guilt, the law attempts to become other than itself: justice. The improbability of crossing over becomes more obvious than ever.

In distrust we trust : analysis of academic apocalypse

The paper concentrates on trust as a research topic that receives increasing attention from the side of different social disciplines. The author of this thesis attempts to identify the reasons of this phenomenon, as well as the decline in usage of the concepts conveying a congenial idea, such as, solidarity, cooperation, social cohesion, social capital or connectedness. The key hypotheses, such as paradigmatic change within the social sciences, emergence of risk society, proliferation of the postmodem condition, new infonnation and communication technologies and the crisis of democracy are considered through the works of the authors who now mainly responsible for the shaping of the discourse of trust. The concepts of Luhmann, Putnam, Sztompka, Fukuyama and Hardin are analyzed from an epistemological viewpoint in its ontological and political implications. The primary goal of the paper is to overview trust from the methodological viewpoint, illustrating the limitations of the concept as a research strategy as weII as it advantages in the epoch when the social sciences acquire a status of moral disciplines.

Children's rights in rural Punjab : the story of a border-dweller

There is currently a disconnect between the universal and general children's rights as presented in the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child and the lived experiences of children in various countries. This thesis uses the authors' struggle to exist between two cultures as a lens through which the disconnect is explored. The author returns to her village in Punjab and looks at spaces created for children through institutions such as the education system and spaces that children create on their own. Luhmann's social systems theory is used to critique anti-humanist institutions and systems. As an alternative to Luhmann, H~dt and Negri's concept of the multitude is explored to provide insight into the political spaces that children create for themselves.

Los facilitadores de equipo en una organización de clase mundial.

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias de la Administración con Especialidad en Relaciones Industriales) UANL

Epistemología de lo social

Tesis (Maestría en Metodología de las ciencias) UANL

Análisis socioeconomico y político de la educación mexicana y su vinculación al proceso económico.

Tesis (Maestría en Enseñanza Superior) UANL

Estructura, sistema de interacción y sujetos sociales : aplicación de un esquema teórico-metodológico a un estudio de caso

Tesis (Maestría en Metodología de las Ciencias) UANL

Actitudes y comportamientos de los varones ante los roles familiares: investigación realizada en la ciudad de Monterrey

Tesis (Maestría en Trabajo Social) UANL

Lo urbano en lo rural : transformación del espacio periurbano y la creación de las necesidades

Tesis (Maestría en Ciencias con Orientación en Trabajo Social) U.A.N.L.

Ensayo bibliográfico sobre sociologia rural

UANL

El impacto de la migración internacional en una comunidad del norte de México : (Morelos, Coahuila)

Tesis (Lic. en Sociología) U.A.N.L., 1990.

Estándares para medir el desempeño social de una organización

Tesis (Maestria en Psicologia laboral) U.A.N.L

Aspectos psicosociales de los estudiantes de la Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia de la UNACH ante la modernización [por] Pedro Antonio Ortíz Gutiérrez

Tesis (Maestría en Psicología Social) U. A. N. L.

Las ciencias sociales y el mundo actual

UANL