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Political discourse and policy reforms worldwide have highlighted the importance of promoting the knowledge economy by stimulating academics' societal engagement (ASE). Such narratives partly aim at influencing academics' attitudes and behaviors. Earlier work that has investigated such influence has tended to overlook the development in humanities and social science, and focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. This paper contributes to filling this gap. Based on the assumption that academics' views are, to a significant extent, shaped during their early years in academia, we investigate whether there are generational differences in attitudes to ASE. Four different higher education systems, including both Napoleonic and Humboldtian models, are investigated: Germany, Sweden, Portugal, and Argentina. Our analysis of the results of the international Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society survey reveals marked country-level differences in the way academics perceive the importance of ASE activities. Overall, there is no strong evidence that the current generation of HSS academics has very different attitudes to ASE than previous generations. We do, however, find indications that post-2006 academics are more likely to consider ASE activities from an instrumental perspective.

In recent years, a more sophisticated vocabulary has emerged in the field of higher education. Categories such as" socially relevant research"; "knowledge mobilization"; "research impact"; "innovation"; and "university priorities" have appeared. At first glance, these words may appear neutral, simple and free from conflicts of interest. However, I argue that each of them requires deeper analysis, especially in relation to current scientific and university public policies, as their use has consequences and/or impacts both at the institutional level (higher education institutions) and actor-level (scholars, project managers, etc.). Therefore, by shedding light on the fact that "social relevance" of university is a commonly addressed category in documents regulating university activities, I postulate that such categories indicate a reductionist notion of "relevance" that is used haphazardly as a substitute for the ideas of meaning, mission, and the aims of a university. In order to pinpoint and discuss these new terms and categories that are used as measures of academic knowledge, the paper focuses on public university systems in Argentina and Canada. From a comparative perspective, I aim at grasping a better understanding of the changes in knowledge mobilization.

The literature on private higher education has identified striking differences between the public and private sectors in terms of fields of study. For example, unlike their public counterparts, private universities have traditionally specialised in the social sciences and humanities. This paper explores the university market in Argentina to see if these differences still persist today, or if they have blurred over time. This dynamic is studied from the perspective of both supply (the percentage of institutions offering a specific degree programme) and demand (student enrolments). Clearly, both sectors are venturing further and further into each other's traditional domains.

In this article, the author describes Cecilia Braslavsky's pioneering work in the training of academics and technical-professional teams in Argentina. She divides the paper into two parts. The first one covers a period (between 1983 and 1993) in which Cecilia, along with other intellectuals from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, proposed creating new perspectives to consider the problems of the education system and at the same time to train new generations of professionals able to confront the period just beginning in the country, at the end of one of the bloodiest dictatorships in Argentina's history. The second part of the paper describes her role in the training of professionals between 1993 and 1999. In this period, Cecilia had new concerns. Ten years after the return of democracy and after having trained a complete generation of leaders in the educational field able to carry out interesting diagnoses and go beyond the ideologies imposed by the military government, the focus of her concern shifts to a training of specialists which, without neglecting the theoretical aspect, will focus on transforming the situation in which they are acting, in order to guarantee a better distribution of educational goods. In this context, and without entirely abandoning her vocation for training undergraduate and graduate students, she places the emphasis on practice, and moves to training professionals who, with a solid theoretical education, can in parallel attempt to change reality. (Contains 3 tables and 2 notes.)

This article aims to communicate some findings of our doctoral thesis in Social Sciences. First, we present general characteristics of qualitative research, placing it in a zone of intersections. Subsequently, we recover contributions from Nancy Fraser on the notion of recognition considering the theoretical fertility of her perspective. Finally, we expose some results that the research produced from the dialogue between the voices and the embodied experiences of the political subjects in the struggles for the right to education, specifically, of the relatives of people with disabilities and the Fraserian perspective. Among the main conclusions, we arrive at the fact that the marks of their struggles provide horizons to rethink the educational policies of Special Education in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An interview with José Zanca, a historian, is presented. When asked about his intellectual formation, he recalled his time studying history at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires in the 1990s, and described it as a period of intellectual flourishing. When asked about the connection between his work and Argentine or foreign intellectual traditions, he acknowledged the existence of academic trends and fashions in the social sciences and humanities.

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The economic adjustments made in the scientific and technological setting since 2015 in Argentina have meant that the holders of doctoral degrees, earned thanks to increased numbers of scholarships and the reopening of the Scientific Researcher program, are unemployed and have started to implement strategies to generate income. The current article presents some of the results of ongoing research on the educational and work trajectories of individuals holding doctoral degrees in the social sciences in Argentina. A study of three cases attempts to comprehend, based on personal narrative, the way that individuals develop strategies for obtaining employment, concretely in the academic and/or scientific setting, along with the meanings they attach to their activity and their employment options.+ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to research the characteristics of employment of individuals holding recent doctoral degrees in the social sciences in Argentina and the complex relationship with the demands of internationalization. The project is based on a survey of more than 800 holders of doctoral degrees in the social sciences in Argentina. The results indicate that the labor market of this group of individuals is primarily academic; at the same time, low international mobility is observed during doctoral study as well as after graduation, along with the respondents' expressed intent to seek employment abroad. The conclusion is that the demand of internationalization by the holders of doctoral degrees requires new approaches in public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to study doctoral education as an integral part of academic professions at universities, based on the narratives of the secretaries of research and graduate study in various academic units of the social and human sciences at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Based on biographical narratives and in-depth interviews with in-service academics, the project focuses on the vital professional experiences of doctoral education; research scholarships and their unique characteristics in doctoral education; and lastly, the challenges of graduate study in terms of internationalization and virtual programs, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of sociology, from its origin, is to build and maintain significant correlations between sociological thinking and autonomy from other sciences. What characterized the evolution of sociology was not so much the object of study, but rather the need to make it autonomous. This debate has developed especially in Europe and the United States, while in the countries of Latin America actions have been taken to ensure that sociology develops and assumes a meaningful role in the academic context. This article aims to explain a) the phases that have characterized the development of sociology in Latin America; b) the role of Gino Germani in the renewal of sociology in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Botanists, a section of the broad universe of researchers in Biology, are intensive users of herbaria. Presumably, all botanists use herbaria, with greater or lesser frequency and intensity, in the development of their research. In this article, we will try to prove this statement. For this purpose, an institutional history of Botany and herbaria in Argentina is presented. This study will also show that there are other fields of knowledge in which the herbarium has a role as an input, or data source, for research (e.g. agronomy, ethnobotany, medicine). On the other hand, it will be demonstrated that, in addition to the uses of the herbarium in basic science, this institution has a crucial role in the knowledge and preservation of biodiversity, and in the improvement of species for commercial use. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: This study aimed at analyzing the cycling safety-related factors and the mental health indicators of elderly cyclists in comparison with other age groups. Methods: For this cross-sectional study, we analyzed the data of 911 bicyclists from two Latin American countries that have been experiencing a substantial growth of urban cycling during the last few years: Colombia and Argentina. Participants responded to an e-questionnaire on bicycling behaviors, mental health and cycling safety. Results: Aging adults reported lower rates of risky behaviors and traffic crashes (around .38 in five years), and, on the other hand, more cycling protective behaviors, a higher risk perception and a better knowledge of traffic norms than both other adults (26–50 years old) and young cyclists (<26). Cycling behaviors and crashes were found to be significantly related to mental health indicators, the latter being higher in aging cyclists. However, this population remains more prone to distractions experienced while cycling than other age groups. Conclusions: Although the behavioral features of aging adults were comparatively “safer” than the ones displayed by other age groups, factors such as cycling distractions and this population’s over-representation in traffic crashes suggest the need of enforcing policymaking for a better integration of this age segment in alternative transportation dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As in other Latin American populations, Argentinians are the result of the admixture amongst different continental groups, mainly from America and Europe, and to a lesser extent from Sub-Saharan Africa. However, it is known that the admixture processes did not occur homogeneously throughout the country. Therefore, considering the importance for anthropological, medical and forensic researches, this study aimed to investigate the population genetic structure of the Argentinian Patagonia, through the analysis of 46 ancestry informative markers, in 433 individuals from five different localities. Overall, in the Patagonian sample, the average individual ancestry was estimated as 35.8% Native American (95% CI: 32.2–39.4%), 62.1% European (58.5–65.7%) and 2.1% African (1.7–2.4%). Comparing the five localities studied, statistically significant differences were observed for the Native American and European contributions, but not for the African ancestry. The admixture results combined with the genealogical information revealed intra-regional variations that are consistent with the different geographic origin of the participants and their ancestors. As expected, a high European ancestry was observed for donors with four grandparents born in Europe (96.8%) or in the Central region of Argentina (85%). In contrast, the Native American ancestry increased when the four grandparents were born in the North (71%) or in the South (61.9%) regions of the country, or even in Chile (60.5%). In summary, our results showed that differences on continental ancestry contribution have different origins in each region in Patagonia, and even in each locality, highlighting the importance of knowing the origin of the participants and their ancestors for the correct interpretation and contextualization of the genetic information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Misiones, Argentina, contains the largest remaining tract of Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest ecoregion; however, ~50% of native forest is unprotected and located in a mosaic of plantations, agriculture, and pastures. Existing protected areas are becoming increasingly isolated due to ongoing habitat modification. These factors, combined with lower than expected regional carnivore densities, emphasize the need to understand the effect of fragmentation on animal movement and connectivity between protected areas. Using detection dogs and genetic analyses of scat, we collected data on jaguars (Panthera onca), pumas (Puma concolor), ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), oncillas (Leopardus tigrinus), and bush dogs (Speothos venaticus) across habitats that varied in vegetation, disturbance, human proximity, and protective status. With MaxEnt we evaluated habitat use, habitat suitability, and potential species richness for the five carnivores across northern-central Misiones, Argentina. Through a multifaceted cost analysis that included unique requirements of each carnivore and varying degrees of overlap among them, we determined the optimal location for primary/secondary corridors that would link the northern-central zones of the Green Corridor in Misiones and identified areas within these corridors needing priority management. A secondary analysis, comparing these multispecies corridors with the jaguar’s unique requirements, demonstrated that this multispecies approach balanced the preferences of all five species and effectively captured areas required by this highly restricted and endangered carnivore. We emphasize the potential importance of expanding beyond a single umbrella or focal species when developing biological corridors that aim to capture the varied ecological requirements of coexisting species and ecological processes across the landscape. Detection dogs and genetic analyses of scat allow data on multiple species to be collected efficiently across multiple habitat types independent of the degree of legal protection. These data used with multifocal GIS analyses balance the varying degree of overlap and unique properties among them allowing for comprehensive conservation strategies to be developed relatively rapidly. Our comprehensive approach serves as a model to other regions faced with habitat loss and lack of data. The five carnivores focused on in our study have wide ranges, so the results from this study can be expanded and combined with surrounding countries, with analyses at the species or community level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Molecular and epidemiological studies of transmission routes and risk factors for infection by HTLV-1 are extremely important in order to implement control measures, especially because of the high prevalence of HTLV-1 in several regions of the world. San Salvador de Jujuy, Northwest Argentina, is a highly endemic area for HTLV-1 and foci of tropical spastic paraparesis/HTLV-1-associated myelopathy. Objective: To gain further insight into the role of intrafamilial transmission of HTLV-1 in a highly endemic region in Argentina. Method: Cross-sectional study in Northwest Argentina. Epidemiological data and blood samples were collected from 28 HTLV-1 infected subjects (index cases) and 92 close relatives/cohabitants. HTLV-1 infection was diagnosed by detection of antibodies and proviral DNA. The LTR region was sequenced and analyzed for genetic distances (VESPA software), in addition to determination and identification of polymorphisms to define HTLV-1 family signatures. Results: Fifty seven of the 120 subjects enrolled had antibodies against HTLV-1 and were typified as HTLV-1 by PCR. The prevalence rate of HTLV-1 infection in family members of infected index cases was 31.52% (29/92). The infection was significantly associated with gender, age and prolonged lactation. Identity of LTR sequences and presence of polymorphisms revealed high prevalence of mother-to-child and interspousal transmission of HTLV-1 among these families. Conclusion: There is an ongoing and silent transmission of HTLV-1 through vertical and sexual routes within family clusters in Northwest Argentina. This evidence highlights that HTLV-1 infection should be considered as a matter of public health in Argentina, in order to introduce preventive measures as prenatal screening and breastfeeding control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous studies highlight the importance of phytotherapy for indigenous and non-indigenous people in different parts of the world. In this work we analyze the richness (number of species), diversity (plant identity and the number of illnesses for which it is used) and similarity of plant species and illnesses treated with them, in order to contribute new data and insight into the importance of plant medicines to the local medical systems of people living in Misiones province, in the subtropics of Argentina. Three sympatric groups were compared: Guarani Indians, Criollos (mestizos) and Polish migrants. Quantitative scrutiny was focused on both primary and secondary sources. The similarity and diversity of medicinal plants and uses between groups was calculated by applying the Sørensen quantitative coefficient and the Shannon-Wiener index, respectively. In order to identify the characteristic plant species used by each group, the Cultural Importance and Prevalence Value (CIPV) was calculated based on the species Indicator Value (IndVal), which combines a species relative abundance with its relative frequency of occurrence in the various groups, and modified according to the type of the analyzed data. The important finding is a great variation in the number of species used by the study groups. Altogether, 509 botanical species were registered: Guarani (397), Criollos (243) and Polish migrants (137). For all groups, the use of native medicinal plants prevailed. The Guarani appear to be the local experts in use of medicinal plants. There is the significant difference in the number of treated illnesses by each taxon among three groups. Criollos and Polish migrants exhibit the greatest similarity in illnesses treated with medicinal plants. These groups share a corpus of knowledge related to illness nosology, and have a symptomatic approach to illness treatment. The Guarani have an etiological approach to illness diagnosis and healing, which may be viewed as a barrier to the exchange of knowledge about home medicine with other ethnic groups of Misiones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on shift in support of the study of work from a concern with the productive value of labor to a reorientation toward nonmaterial, noneconomic aspects in Argentina. Anthropology of work provides an important counterbalance to the reduction by investigating the meaning of work in the daily lives and struggles of social actors.

In this Editorial, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of creation of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at the Universidad de Buenos Aires [Filo: 120], the contributions of Library and Information Science (LIS) are analyzed to disciplinary field of Human Sciences. The LIS, precisely because of its rich duality between the Humanities and Social Sciences, is set as an area in a "state of openness" to these fields. Among the various points of confluence or cultural articulations that this discipline can provide, the following are mentioned: the breadth of its concept of "shared territoriality"; its ability to foster "creative marginality"; its intentionality manifested by the multidisciplinary practice; its professional practice of bibliographic and regulatory nature; its discursive coherence to avoid fragmentation and fragmentation of the objects of study; its close link with the academic and popular knowledge; among many others. The Editorial ends with a reflection on the ability of the LIS to link both transversely and diagonally, the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To focus on the curricular structures means that the importance of a change within this structure in a new high education is justified. The most relevant arguments and debates as regards the quest for an integrated curriculum and/or an interdisciplinary curriculum are exposed; historical precedents about the attempts to transform higher education within the last decades are presented; as well, a survey was previously conducted on the ways in which each jurisdiction modified the curricular structure of high school's basic cycle of education with special attention on the methods of inclusion of the social sciences. Finally, the questions that guided the investigation project's field of work are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Traditionally, Argentine foreign policy has been regarded as the domain of the executive, and a laudable expression of realism. Perspectives that include domestic variables as a source of foreign policy have only emerged relatively recently, and have only assumed importance in a redemocratised Argentina in the course of its recurrent economic and political crises in the late 20th and early 21st century. This dynamic was particularly marked during and after the crisis of 2001. As a result, Kirchnerist foreign policy was affected by a range of complex domestic factors. The aim of this article is to show how those factors drove the governments of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, without abandoning executive primacy, to prioritise a neodevelopmental economic model, and combine them with an autonomous foreign policy which they believed to be the only way to meet the social demands of those affected by the neoliberal crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Seligman proposes that well-being can be achieved by three main pathways: the pleasant life or positive emotions, the engaged life, and the meaningful life. The aims of this study are to investigate the three pathways to well-being in Argentinean adolescents and analyze their relationship to life satisfaction. A sample of 255 Argentinean adolescent students (110 boys and 145 girls) who were between 13 and 18 years of age was used in this study. Participants completed the Three Pathways to Well-being Scale and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Argentinean adolescents scored highest in the pleasant life, second highest on the engaged life and lowest on the meaningful life. The results showed that among the three pathways, only the engaged life was a significant predictor of life satisfaction; however, this was found only in a small proportion of variance (8%). In consonance with well-being theory, those adolescents who can make use of the three pathways at a high level reported the highest level of life satisfaction. Results were similar to previous findings in adult population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, I present the perspective from which we approach our object of research: the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police. I propose a review of the field of study about the security forces, the context of their emergence, and underlying questions and concerns. A brief review of that scenario makes it possible to delimit the differences and specify the concerns of this study. I also sketch the main lines of re-problematization that I propose: displacing it from the police to that related to the police. Lastly, I redefine the object, that related to the police, and define the forms of approaching it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article is a part of the research I am carrying out for my doctoral dissertation. It examines the creation of circuits of differenciated schools that links regular and special educacion. This particular paper reflects on the establishment of "Recoveryschools" (Escuelas de Recuperación), in Buenos Aires, at the end of the Sixties. I use the ethnographic approach, but at the same time by capturing the political and historical context of their creation and the debates on mental health and social sciences of those days, we will be able to historizice the recovery schools' present. Furthermore, we try to have a deeper comprehension of the meanings ussually attributed to these schools. Our work highlights practices that were commonly carried out in those first "recovery-schools". These practices were similar to those of the therapeutical communities or community assemblies that took place in some hospices for mentally ill in the Sixties. Nilda Intrieri, the creator of the "recovery schools", knew those practices, and one of the characteristics that she gave to the first school was the school assembly, which included devices elaborated for the community assemblies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Argentine tango has been investigated by scholars of various disciplinary backgrounds. A broad range of empirical methods has been used in this research. But little attention has been paid to the artefacts which participate in the practice of Argentine tango. Following the programmatic claims of the ‘practical turn’ in the social sciences and in cultural studies, practices are always linked with the materiality of the practising bodies and of the artefacts participating in practices. Thus materiality is indispensable for the analysis of any practice. How materiality can be included into the generating of data and the analysis is little discussed in practice theories. High heels in Argentine tango are the example to demonstrate the necessary application of various qualitative research instruments to investigate the role of artefacts in practice. High heeled female dancing shoes as used in Argentine tango are analysed with respect to their gendered performative and symbolic impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article has three objectives. First, to present the trajectories of youth studies, in particular about youth and politics, in Argentina from 1983 to 2008. This section is the centre of the article and it is organized in three axes, we will first show the link between the historical context and the possibility of research on youth, both for their appearance as objects of study and for the development of social sciences in Argentina. Then we will detail this background that constitutes what we call ‘the invention of tradition’, and we will pass on to a characterization of current tendencies in the field of youth studies and politics. The second objective is to present through a case study (participation in secondary schools) some discussions regarding the link between youth and politics. Finally, we will discuss youth and politics as an academic and societal preoccupation in the light of the aforementioned processes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This work presents both a history and an overview of current production in the Argentine sociology of culture. Based on the so-called double periphery – the peripheral location of Argentine sociology in the western social sciences, but also of cultural research within local sociology – the author seeks to analyze the emergence of this subdiscipline. It owes to both the concern for mass culture and its relationship with populism at the end of the 1960s. At that time, these studies were being done by researchers with training in literary criticism, researchers who approached cultural phenomena as a political concern, in a way similar to what occurred when British cultural studies were born. At the end of Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976–1983), the reappearance and growth of a sociology of culture expanded into Nomadic terrains and into varied themes and institutions: this was due to a proliferation of studies in social communication and new university departments, but it can also be attributed to the influence of Brazilian anthropology. Another factor is the delayed creation of graduate programs and their clearly multidisciplinary nature. Today the field is testing its potential while undergoing both quantitative and qualitative growth. However, it is essential to re-examine the field’s sociological aspects as it moves along this path. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For over a decade, the use of consumer decision seeking the accomplishment of political or ethical goals has been extensively debated by international social sciences. Confronting social capital decline and political demobilization theories, the acknowledgement of political consumerism as a novel and rising mode of non-conventional individual participation in politics has helped to redefine the terms of discussion on civic engagement while also bridging the gap between citizenship and the traditional public sphere of politics, on one side, and consumption and the private sphere of market agents, on the other. Yet, such debate has hardly begun for Latin America, not to speak of pursuing an empirical discussion. This article reviews empirical evidence about the politicization of the relationships between consumers and business substantiated upon the adoption of politically motivated purchases or boycotts of brands and products based on social and environmental values or policy preferences. Research is grounded on representative sample surveys conducted in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Results indicate that political consumerism is a fairly stable phenomenon and it enlarges (rather than redefines) the repertoires of political action in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the actual and potential access to scientific research outputs in a specific country based on an analysis of the access model of journals used by researchers to publish their articles. It includes a study of scientific production in Argentina from 2008 to 2010 in the following areas: Medicine, Physics and Astronomy, Agriculture and Biological sciences, and Social sciences and Humanities. The sample was taken from the Scopus database and the journal access models selected through searches performed using DOAJ, e-revist@s, SciELO, RedALyC, PubMed, RomeoSherpa, and Dulcinea. The conclusion of this study is that Argentina offers suitable conditions to provide open access to a high percentage of the scientific literature produced at the national level, using repositories. In addition, the methodology used by the authors could be potentially used by other countries and topic areas. The results provide useful knowledge for repository managers at academic and research institutions to promote repository services development and to justify their maintenance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is based on the calden forest reconnaissance as an integral- though not exclusive- part of the Guatraché Department, and on previous surveys which show differences in the basic culture of the population incorporated in late nineteenth century. The Espinal region is considered to contain different cultural backgrounds, a fact which marks a rural territorial development with various shades, resembling the ones known in other departments of the province of La Pampa sharing the same characteristics. Trying to decipher the tensions, conflicts, assessment and types of development in the Guatraché Department constitutes a challenge of comparisons, synergies, socials actors, empowerment, strengths and weaknesses. Our aim is to tackle reality in the light of theories that reflect the operation of a paradigm of development with inclusion. We do not disregard the changes, for example, in the current opening up to new activities that prevail over the traditional ones. In this sense, the development of the territory, the redefinition of the regional economies and the emergence of new regions of mosaics of micro regions, as well as the strengthening of inter-jurisdictional relations among nation, province and municipality, and the definition of a strategy of international insertion acquire fundamental relevance. The focus of the article is to analyze the changes, to describe them throughout time, to establish a projection and to outline possible settings of future organization of the territory. In the field of the social sciences, the selected variables of analysis to carry it out are related to the territorial organization linked with local development, discourse analysis and economic history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A state of the question will be presented for diverse theoretical frameworks through which the social sciences approach social mobilization problems in general and their application to social mobilization processes in the peasant farmer base in particular. This work is part of a research project whose objective is to analyze the presence and role of peasant farmer organizations in the agricultural conflict that occurred in 2008 in Argentina, considering that, as a reaction to the application of neoliberal agrarian policies on both the state as well as the regional level, social movements with a peasant base arose that were, in turn, part of a greater framework that includes processes with similar characteristics in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author starts by offering some data about Argentina as a country and goes on to outline an overview of the teaching of Practical Theology in the institutions of Theological Education. The writer, coordinator for the Department of Practical Theology at the University Institute ISEDET, develops his approach taking into account the heterogeneity as regards this field in Argentina, which reflects the variety of Protestant groups in the country. He concentrates on the result that Practical Theology has in the curriculum of Theological Education, the relationship between the fields of Theology and Human and Social Sciences, and, related to this, the aspects that should be considered in the learning process for the different ministries. The writer shares his experience at ISEDET and finishes the article by reflecting upon the need of a shared project as the basis of the teaching of Practical Theology, the relationship between the Church and the Theological Institution and how important it is that the teaching of different subjects go hand in hand with the challenges of the new times and the signs of the Spirit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study conducted by the author of the publication patterns of social science researchers in Argentina. Using publication information from Argentine researchers associated with the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, a government organization for the promotion of science and technology in Argentina), the author concludes that publication patterns and rates vary across the respective disciplines.

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This research analyzes type of epistemic content and class size (contextual variables) in relation to the objective configuration of distributed cognition systems: physical/ communicating and symbolic/implementing (variables relative to carrying out the activity). The variables studied within the physical/communicating system were the basic classroom setting, the teacher's spatial behavior, students' mobility in the classroom, and students' oral participation. The symbolic/implementing system consisted of guides, bibliographical texts, and note-taking. The sample was non-probabilistic, intentional, and included 28 university classes pertaining to three majors in the social sciences and three majors in the exact sciences. The results indicated, through multivariate and bivariate analysis, highly-significant associations between the mentioned variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]