Introduction: Globalization and the Latin-American Workplace

2006 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Stillerman ◽  
Peter Winn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Class History ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

This special issue of International Labor and Working-Class History focuses on how the phenomenon known as globalization has transformed work in Latin America in recent decades. The term “globalization” became widely used in history and the social sciences beginning in the 1990s, and globalization has become a popular buzzword in the media in recent years, an accepted (if controversial) part of the frame of our era. The roots of this historical process, however, go back several centuries, as does the impact of globalization on workers and work.

scholarly journals Dependency, History, and Scholarship: An Interview with Professor Stanley J. Stein

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Vincent Peloso
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social History ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Stanley J. Stein, Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University, is a lifelong Latin Americanist. Together with his late wife Barbara, herself an accomplished bibliographer and historian of the region, Professor Stein wrote several books and articles that put their stamp on methods of writing the social history of modern Latin America, specifically on the impact of colonialism and industrialism in Mexico and Brazil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is fair to say that no one who studied Latin American history over the last 35 years would have failed to engage the slim, elegantly written synthesis, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective (1970). Recipients of grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, singly or together, the Steins were honored for their path-breaking studies with the CLAH Robertson and Bolton prizes, the Conference on Latin American History Distinguished Service Award (1991), and the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction (1996).

scholarly journals Dependency, History, and Scholarship: An Interview with Professor Stanley J. Stein

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (03) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Vincent Peloso
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social History ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Stanley J. Stein, Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University, is a lifelong Latin Americanist. Together with his late wife Barbara, herself an accomplished bibliographer and historian of the region, Professor Stein wrote several books and articles that put their stamp on methods of writing the social history of modern Latin America, specifically on the impact of colonialism and industrialism in Mexico and Brazil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is fair to say that no one who studied Latin American history over the last 35 years would have failed to engage the slim, elegantly written synthesis, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective (1970). Recipients of grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, singly or together, the Steins were honored for their path-breaking studies with the CLAH Robertson and Bolton prizes, the Conference on Latin American History Distinguished Service Award (1991), and the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction (1996).

France – RFA (Séville, 1982) : l’évènement footballistique

2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110044
Author(s):  
Louis Violette
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Input And Output ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Original Reading

This contribution offers an original reading of the representations surrounding the semi-final of the Football World Cup between France and Germany on 8 July 1982 in Seville. Input and output of the historical process by its status of socio-cultural rupture, this sporting fact postulates to be categorized as a symbolic event. In order to measure its social impacts, the challenge for academic sciences is to objectify its nature. Through a combined analysis of its manifestation, its future and its normalization, this study demonstrates the event-driven dimension of the Seville drama. In fact, captured and relayed by the media in a mythological way, it sees the emergence of a long-term memory movement. The social sciences make the football process of identification intelligible but they have so far failed to explain this still present past.

The Sociology of Religion in Latin America: from Theoretical Dependence to Its Specificity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Blancarte
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Theoretical Dependence ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
American Sociology ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social

Latin American sociology of religion is a relatively young discipline, although institutionally speaking, it has not lagged as far behind European sociology as we usually think. There is, in fact, an early link between Continental Europe and Latin America in the development of institutions dedicated to the study of religions. They have witnessed an incredible expansion, particularly over the past three decades. The author offers a general panorama of the trajectory of the subdiscipline and the development of a robust academic field. The reasons for this intellectual explosion go from the development of a scientific institutional framework for social sciences in emerging economies to the changing structure of religions and the social awareness of a historical plurality of beliefs in Latin America.

scholarly journals Who Am I? Transforming Our Understanding of Identity and Moral Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Laurance J. Splitter
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

When I was invited to edit a special issue of Education Sciences on the theme of “Moral education and identity”, I saw an opportunity both to gain a better understanding of how scholars across a range of disciplines construed the task of moral education in terms of identity and—I can now confess—to defend the claim that moral education, when properly understood, depends upon an account of identity which is quite different from that which dominates the social sciences, the media and popular opinion. My aim here is to provide such an account and, thereby, to suggest how we might construe the challenge of moral education in a world, and at a time, in which self-centered, short-sighted and narrow-minded thinking dominates much of the socio-political landscape. I argue that the dominant view of identity—that our own identities are constituted by those collectives and institutions with which we identify—actually reinforces narratives which bind us to tribal perspectives—in national, religious and cultural terms—in which we increasingly see ourselves and others in terms of who is “in” and who is “out”. I propose a relational view of identity in which each person sees her/himself as “one among others”, where the relationships in question both bind us in familiar and concrete ways to others—i.e., other persons but also other objects in the world—and transcend the boundaries imposed by belonging to this or that nation, religion, culture, or tribe. This idea of what it means to be a person goes hand-in-hand with a framework for moral education which is also both concretely relational and appropriately transcendent. Put briefly, we need to create the conditions in which young people engage one another dialogically in taking responsibility for tackling what I term “the Big Questions”, including: “What do I/we stand for?”, “What/who really matters?”, “What kind of society/world do I/we want to live in (and leave for future generations)?”, and “What is my place in the world?”. (In taking this approach, I aim to address at least some of the questions posed in the original call for submissions for this special issue, as outlined at the Special Issue “Moral Education and Identity”).

Measurement of Latin American Political Change

1961 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell H. Fitzgibbon ◽  
Kenneth F. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
Reasonable Doubt ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Statistical Procedures ◽  
The Social

Social scientists are finding an increasingly useful and stimulating tool in the application of statistical techniques to their problems. As in the employment of any new tool, both the utility and the limitations of this one must be learned. It seems beyond reasonable doubt, however, that quantification of data in the social sciences will become a more widely used and rewarding procedure as time goes on.Prudence dictates that stress be laid on its limitations. The enthusiasm with which a new tool—toy, some would say—is adopted should not blind the user to dangers which may be implicit in its overuse. One cannot squeeze more juice from an orange than the orange contains, no matter how modern the squeezer. Care must be exercised, too, lest the bitter essence of the rind become mixed with the nourishing juice of the fruit itself.The present analysis is an attempt, in not too complex a fashion, to make use of such techniques to organize and validate data which might otherwise permit only the broadest sort of generalizations by way of conclusion, conclusions unsatisfactory roughly in proportion to their breadth. The senior author of this article has for more than a decade and a half been interested in the problem of objective measurement of certain aspects of political change in Latin America with particular respect to the sum total of phenomena falling under the rubric of “democracy.” On four occasions, 1945, 1950, 1955, and 1960, he conducted a survey among groups of specialists on Latin America to elicit evaluations which then, with the help of such statistical procedures as seemed useful, were summarized and analyzed.

scholarly journals Revisiting Latin American Media Democratisation Theories and the Populist Factor

2020 ◽  
pp. 630-654
Author(s):  
Edmundo Bracho-Polanco
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

This article deals with the following question: How can Latin American media and communication theories help explain the mediatisation of populism and democracy? The article has a twofold goal: a) it contributes to the study of media, populism and democracy in the context of Latin America; b) it aims to raise awareness outside Latin America about the richness of Latin American media and communication theory for the analysis of the mediation of populism and democracy. The article introduces and engages with a variety of theories from Latin America that deal with globalisation, dependency, cultural imperialism, hybridity, and mediation, and reviews their potentials for explaining the mediatisation of populism and democracy. Theories or models of globalisation, dependency and cultural imperialism, and hybridity and mediation are reviewed analytically, as are some of their core critiques as drawn from various strands of thought, with emphasis on incorporating elements of populism theory. As interest grows in both academia and the media towards the ways in which populism is shaping the social and political spheres in the West, partly encouraged by the recent surge of populist leaders in Europe and the United States, past and current experiences and evaluation of Latin American populism can be constructive in understanding the phenomenon and its implications for communication, media and culture. This study finds that, following political shifts in the twenty-first century, Latin American populism represents a paradigm that is articulated to an important degree through communicative specificities and which can add analytical rigor to competing media and communication theories in the region.

scholarly journals COMMON LANDS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SPAIN

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Privatisation Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equity And Efficiency ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Common Lands ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThe impact of the privatisation of the commons remains a contested topic throughout the social sciences. Focusing on the Spanish case, this article reviews the literature and provides an overall assessment of this historical process based on recent research. Common lands appear to have been reasonably well managed and their dismantling did not foster agricultural productivity. Instead, the privatisation process negatively affected the economic situation of a large proportion of rural households and local councils, as well as deteriorating the stock of social capital. Therefore, the long-standing belief in the existence of a trade-off between equity and efficiency actually turns out to be misleading.

Social Differentiation in Colonial Brazil

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Willems
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Class System ◽  
Rural Workers ◽  
The Social

To the extent that the social sciences have been concerned with thestratification of Latin American societies they have shown a well-knowntendency to dichotomize their structures into a small upper class of wealthy and powerful landowners and a poor and powerless lower class hetero-geneously composed of rural workers, urban proletarians, petty traders, artisans, and the like. As a rule, the emergence of new classes and thegrowing internal differentiation of emergent or traditional classes are somewhat reluctantly admitted only as the societies of Latin America have demonstrated the ability to depart from their agrarian tradition and topursue the irreversible course of modernization. There has been a strong inclination to ignore or to minimize those aspects of the social structure which suggest a higher degree of complexity than the stereotype of a two-class system seems to indicate.

scholarly journals Shattered Dreams of Anti-Fascist Unity: German Speaking Exiles in Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia, 1937–1945

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 667-686
Author(s):  
ANDREA ACLE-KREYSING
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Impact

Between the late 1930s and early 1940s Mexico City and Buenos Aires became the centres of activity for the two most relevant anti-fascist organisations of German-speaking exiles in Latin America: the communist-inspired Free German Movement (Bewegung Freies Deutschland;BFD) and the social-democratic oriented The Other Germany (Das Andere Deutschland;DAD). Both organisations envisaged the creation of an anti-fascist front within Latin America, one which would allow for greater unity of action, and thus carried out extensive congresses at Mexico City and Montevideo in 1943. Due to crucial ideological and tactical differences, this dream of anti-fascist unity led to a power struggle between BFD and DAD, well illustrated in the impact it had on Bolivia. This article seeks a new perspective on how, thanks to the establishment of transnational networks, a continental debate on the meaning and methods of anti-fascism then took place, while also shedding light on the influence the Latin American context had in shaping the exiles’ plans for a new Germany.

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