This article aims to contribute to the debate about time and the new social realities resulting from recent changes in the media field bringing social theory and media theory together. For this, we propose a rereading of ...

In the article I present the general outline of a new interpretation of the characteristics and constitutive elements of Marx’s modern project. There is now a broad consensus that the recovery and updating of the intellectual ...

To test the hypothesis that a group undergoing social change is believed to adopt traits associated with its new roles,this study examined perceptions of women and men of the past, present, and future in Brazil,Chile, and ...

This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over ...

The Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space is nowadays one of the main debated contributions in contemporary social theory when the subject is the spatiality of social life. This paper has place in this discussion. ...

Social theory faces new challenges as society changes. The question is not only if social theory can keep up with –and account for– social transformations, but also if it can avail of social changes (in this case, the ...

Recent changes in the Brazilian regulatory environment demand the creation of a new institutional context that allows to one better joint in the relation between State and society. The new experience based on the creation ...

In this work, from a case study approach, we discuss social responsibility from the idea of philanthropy. Analyzing the Brazilian subsidiary of a north-american cosmetics company whose disclosures says their social actions ...