The new sociological imagination: Facing the challenges of a new millennium

Abstract

A wide range of violent acts is occurring within the context of a Guatemala caught in a post-conflictive problematic. Many urban transport drivers in Guatemala City have been executed by members of 'pandillas' or 'maras' (gangs) to force the payment of the extortion money, leaving their families devastated by the trama and the difficulties of survival. This paper centres on the difficulties that the widows of these drivers organized in AVITRANS (Association of Transport Widows) are facing in their political struggle for government support and social recognition when they are seen as being delegitimized for being poor, mestiza and coming from the 'grey zone' areas of this metropolis. This case study attempts to analyse the consequences of the neoliberal model in practice. " Manuela Camus.",,,,,,,,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/45236","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84908871988&partnerID=40&md5=53ff8f246c81029020bc24bb9f41c82a",,,,,,,,"European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies",,"7

24",,"97",,"Scopus",,,,,,"'Shuma' women; Bus driver killings; Grey zone; Guatemala City; Political action; Social cannibalism",,,,,,"The political action of the widows of bus drivers in the City of Guatemala [La acción política de las viudas de pilotos en la Ciudad de Guatemala]",,"Article" "47020","123456789/35008",,"Aguilar, B.B., Universidad de Guadalajara, Departamento de Madera, Celulosa y Papel, Universidad de Guadalajara",,"Aguilar, B.B.",,"2007",,"Refining is not the only procedure used in the paper industry to modify the properties of the papers produced. Working and analysis of the fibers are other available possibilities. The quality of a paper is related to many factors, not only to appearance, but to factors related to ecology, the law, economics, and to increased use of secondary fibers that make new demands on the manufacturing processes of the paper and on the use of diverse additives. Secondary fibers also provoke problems in their transformation and in printing. The discussion covers developing the fiber to the maximum; fiber flexibility; and maintaining paper properties.",,,,,,,,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/45241","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-44649106357&partnerID=40&md5=06b1ee755a0c5a8a2ba65ce28b67d133",,,,,,"5",,"Mari Papel y Corrugado",,"34

36",,"20",,"Scopus",,,,,,,,,,,,"The premise is product improvement. Working the properties of paper [La premisa es mejorar el producto: Trabajar las propiedades del papel]",,"Article" "47025","123456789/35008",,"Phillips, J.P., Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, Instituto de Astronomía y Meteorología, Universidad de Guadalajara, Av. Vallarta No. 2602, 44130 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico",,"Phillips, J.P.",,"2006",,"It is noted that the vast majority of Galactic PNe are located outside of the interstellar reddening layer, to the extent that local gradients in E B-V are low to undetectable. This is likely to invalidate certain previous estimates of their reddening distances DRED. It also means that larger scale analyses, such as those of Pottasch (1984) and Acker (1973), lead to values of DRED which are significantly too small. A similar critique applies to analyses based on measures of Na D-line absorption, and it seems likely that most of the distances of Napiwotzki & Schonberner (1995) are similarly in error.",,,,,,,,,"http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12104/45246","http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34248394768&partnerID=40&md5=0d32bd211b982c12dcfc64e5dc992b17",,,,,,"2",,"Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica",,"229

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WOS",,,,,,"ISM: Jets and outflows; Planetary nebulae: general",,,,,,"The problem with reddening distances to planetary nebulae",,"Article" "47003","123456789/35008",,"Solis-Gadea, H.R., Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico",,"Solis-Gadea, H.R.",,"2005",,"This article introduces the reader to the problems and the topics treated by the contributors to this special issue of the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. It offers a reflection on the concept of sociological imagination conceived as a key element for the task of facing the intellectual challenges of the present times. What is sociological imagination? How has it been used by the main cultivators of sociology throughout history? And particularly, how is sociological imagination being renewed nowadays by some of the most successful exponents of sociological research? These are some questions considered in this introduction. The new sociological imagination uses theory, history, empirical facts, logical formalization, systematic analysis, creativity, local knowledge, moral judgment and inspiration. What distinctively constitutes its elements is not just the search for correlations between abstract variables, but the search for pertinent relationships among facts, moral problems, structural conditions, historical concerns, personal worries and ethical values of contemporary societies. The new sociological imagination is a search for satisfactory ways of understanding the contemporary world in a rational, communicable, telling and coherent way, while also contributing to the development of the public sphere and a collective understanding of social issues. " 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.