SOCIOLOGY

Author: SILVA DREYER ANA MARIA.
Year: 1992.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The study aimed to analyze the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in reproductive health and sexuality students from public schools in the city, in order to contribute to public policy in this area. To that end, the work was developed with the knowledge and support of educational institutions, the City Council, the County Council and the Generalitat. The methodological guidance was quantitatively and qualitatively. With regard to the former, surveys were applied (sample) in various public schools, which were processed with statistical package SPSS. For the quantitative analysis were conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.

Author: MARTA LAZO CARMEN M..
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [More theses of this university] [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.

Summary: This thesis begins with the theoretical developments related to the perception of messages by the television audience child from studies based on the effects to the receipt active. After that the exhibition is based on the child as an active subject in its interactions with the environment and television that the level of performance that presents depends on the different players involved in the "ecosystem" in which the child resides understood as the habitat in which converge a number of systems, from the heart that it is his child to the culture of a given society, through the "micro" of the family and the school and "exosistemas", these media. All these contexts and identification belonging to the lowest pose "medications" that affect their way of perceiving the various messages exchanged among others television. Thus, part of the study of children in the period baptized by Piaget as the "specific operations" and analyze as perceived at this stage messages audiovisulaes depending three parents about the content you see on television. After conducting field work in which they are performed two reviews, one of the other quantitative and qualitative validamos assumptions that relates to these variables involved and affect the way in which the child appears before television messages. Finally, after demonstrating the importance of dialogue with others about the contents offered on television to provide more guidance in reading the messages, we address the need for the educational system be raised include in the school curriculum material cross' Education in communication "and concretamos a proposal with some possible courses of action in this regard.

Author: GARCIA YESTE CARMEN.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y SOCIALES.

Summary: This thesis that falls within the study area of the Sociology of Education and aims to provide an analysis of the current situation of education in the informational society. It will analyze those theories within the sociology of education that have affected or are currently influencing the educational process and that, in turn, are responding to the current crisis. With this we intend to publicize those practices or educational models that are contributing to this transformation. The question of research from which develops research is to check the inclusion in the classroom generates more participation, increased learning and improved coexistence that the segregation of students. Based on the need to find those educational models and theoretical foundations to respond to the current situation of high school failure and problems of coexistence, we outline a research question that arises respond to these goals throughout this thesis. The answer to this question will have different investigative steps that we will be traveling with the different lines, theoretical frameworks and educational experiences that are currently generating more participation, more and better learning to live together, thus extracting what are the elements of success these educational models. In answering this question, finally, analyze and take three main elements that we will be following throughout this thesis: A. Analysis and challenges of the information society analysis of the society in which we find ourselves, informational society, it is necessary to locate the current situation of education and the implications that the educational environment is having a social level. We are a society in which every day are more present dialogue in all areas, mobility, mastery of a certain skill, coexistence cultural level. Education must meet these challenges and give effective responses if we want to offer all people a decent life in this society, breaking the vicious cycle of marginalization that have generated both former social inequalities such as those generated from new in the information society. B. Analysis of the replies and sociological theories of the information society Following the analysis of contemporary sociological theories we will be able to outline the influences that have led to the field of education so to check which of them have to do with responses to the industrial society (which would present problems without addressing the elements needed to solve them successfully) and which belong to today's society. The Information Society requires new paradigms theoretical solve their challenges, which reduce inequalities and promote the inclusion of all people. These challenges are a useful tool to overcome: education. Only if it knows collect contributions and foundation for sociological theories and other sciences to the information society can contribute to a new society that will improve the lives of everyone, not just the few. C. Analysis of experiences and practices that increase the participation beyond school failure and the problems of coexistence. The practices segregadoras and exclusoras are causing the reproduction of inequalities many children from ethnic minorities or from families nonacademic. Therefore, we have to rely on models and educational practices that globally, and for years, are offering solutions to the problems currently faced in the information society as ftacaso school (although this is also above) and the conflict in classrooms. If we give accurate answers and not experiment with the future of children and girls, we must draw on these experiences that are successfully resolved these problems thanks to the empowerment of the involvement of the entire community in the task of education.

Author: JOVELL FERNÁNDEZ ESTHER.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS.

Summary: It designs and implements a specific instrument for evaluating the quality of information on Diabetes Mellitus in internet web sites identified with a specific search strategy and examines the variability of the sites in time and the factors influencing. METHODOLOGY information has been selected from a total of 9 seekers (Albaniste, geogle, excite, hatbal, go, lyces, yaho, medexplerer and metecr --), on a monthly basis between July 2001 and June 2002. We evaluated a sample of 30 first references obtained by each search engine. --- It has been a tool of 19 questions for the evaluation of the information retrieved valuing general aspects of the information, the structure and content. The content was compared with two practice guidelines -- on Diabetes Mellitus. RESULTS has been found a possible association between mild position of the website, according to the criterion of the search and position obtained on the basis of quality assessment. Of the 11 months in which you can change the evolution of a website, averaging sites are 7 months without changing the position. CONCLUSIONS 1 - The quality of the websites is uneven and has to be evaluated. 2 - The development of tools to be specific disease. 3 - The selection of a site is dependent on the Internet browser --- 4 - The investigation into the quality of health content on the Internet should be done from the user's perspective and not professional. 5, - have been making quality studies with longitudinal tracking.

Author: ALCAÑIZ COMAS MIGUEL.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID [More theses of this university] [www.ucm.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.

Summary: The author of this piece uses a metología inductive to explore Network Redes.La purpose is to find the rate of presence on the same subject related to the Defense and Security. The search focuses on several areas: public and private entities in the areas of national and international publications in the network, monitoring of conflicts, wars of history, simulation / games, collecting books, cinema war musíca military, and so on. The degree of confidence that can be given to the information we provide each of the Web pages consulted, is provided by the evaluation of the elements of the information itself in relation to the reliability of the source, credibility of the information and comparison of the same information as the comparison of the same information from other Web sites. We have found a great deal of information, but you need to be ordered, sorted and structured to be useful to the Internet user, it wants to find a specific thing, and probably have little time to achieve it. It has been lacking thematic seekers sailing in the network in search of specialized information and calidad.Esta deficiency was remedied in part by the existence of good links on websites. The large number of Web pages institutional or retail, or commercial information, textual and multimedia: they provide abundant and scattered information on Defense and Security, which although needs a structure and classification, it can be concluded by saying: "Almost everything that is looking at Network "

Author: VALENZUELA BARRANCO IGNACIO.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA [More theses of this university] [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: The sport within the advanced industrial societies permeates many different aspects of life collectively and individually. It does so through the various practices of sport. It is intended to frame the phenomenon of sport within the social and cultural changes that have experienced the contemporary Spanish society. The leisure and work, as social facts and as objects of reflection, are not a recent development but that we find throughout human history. In one way or another all known societies have free time, although this concept has not always had the same meaning. The meaning of entertainment has evolved with the times to change radically content. Accordingly, as described organizes time of each historical situation, and the sense that is given to each of the parties involved. In contemporary societies the practice of sports appears linked to leisure, generating interrelationships between the various subsystems of the social system. The subsystem symbolic and cultural, sport is seen as a way of socialization and cultural reproduction, which are disseminated and internalize the values of positive content of modern societies: competition, the spirit of achievement, teamwork, style living healthy .. Hence, the great importance attached in the modern educational system to the teaching of sport. In learning the sport learn the "rules of the game" takes another's experience and systems of incentives and rewards. In adult life, sport is configured as a ritual practice of interrelation, contact between members of the community. Lifestyles up different sports and establish ties of solidarity. In the economic subsystem, the practice has generated a sports industry enromes implications for national economies. The widening life expectancy, the availability of free time and the growing purchasing power of the middle classes have made possible the development of a major leisure economy to meet the increasing demands of specialized entertainment. This is the context in which the motivation comes from the Doctoral Thesis. Its primary purpose is to analyze the meaning of the practice of sports of skiing and snowboarding, using as a case study particularly Ski Sierra Nevada high international recognition. Over research analyzes their origins and development, the economic impact on the catchment area, the characteristics of their users, meaning they give to the practice of sports of skiing and snowboarding, and the evaluation of services performed Station. Given the increasingly competitive tourism and leisure management of complex large-scale, such as ski resorts, is becoming greater challenges for management, marketing and production services to a lawsuit in constant change and levels aspiration superiors. Therefore becomes very important to know the views and assessments that make users of the ski resort so as to improve the services offered and deal satisfactoría to demand. These and other aspects are analyzed along the Doctoral Thesis from the theoretical framework of modern theories of leisure and sport and its role in contemporary societies. The structure of the thesis in the following diagram. Chapters I and II are devoted to theoretical analysis of leisure and sport in contemporary societies. In Chapter III examines the Sierra Nevada as a natural environment, with reference to its sporting history, to enter fully into the reality of Ski and Mountain Sierra Nevada. Chapters IV to VII are dedicated to the study of users of the Ski resort, skiers, snowboarders and visitors. In Chapters VIII and IX are analyzed their consumption patterns of tourism and its degree of satisfaction with different aspects of the station, as well as the aggregate economic impact of this Station on the economy pr 8 ovincial 3db and regional levels. Finally, chapter X is devoted to general conclusions of the investigation. They accompany the Doctoral Thesis two Annexes. The first describes the process of realizing the field work and in the second presents the questionnaire serves as empirical basis for the realization of the Doctoral Thesis.

Author: FUENTES MELIAN EVARISTO.
Year: 2004.
University: LA LAGUNA [More theses of this university] [www.ull.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACION.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACION DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA.

Summary: It analyzes in detail the geographic and socio-cultural context, school buildings and educational policy related to the field of study. The second part of the paper discusses the treatment of the Press between 1966 and 1996 for educational and cultural affairs in La Orotava. As a result of the investigation, it provides a significant amount of data to get múltipes and sound conclusions.

Author: COLOMINAS PÉREZ SILVIA.
Year: 2004.
University: POMPEU FABRA [More theses of this university] [www.upf.edu].
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE PERIODISMO Y DE COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE PERIODISMO Y DE COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL.

Summary: This thesis aims to study the American Northrn Exposure television series created by Joshua Brand and Hojn Falsey and issued on CBS from 1990 to 1995. This thesis demonstrates that this television series broke all sorts of boundaries and exemplifies the fact that the opposing (modernismos / postmodernism, man / woman, reason / emotion, science / magic, myth / history, reality / fantasy drama / comedy, etc.). actually are complementary because the unit is diversity. To prove this premise thesis looks at the importance of geography that is the narration of the whole social, namely the importance of Cicely, Alaska as a place of mythical self personnel and find oneself (physical boundary). To illustrate this assertion of mixed box characters chooses Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a Jewish doctor from New York just arriving to Cicely, Alaska at the start of the series and examines its evolution. The evolution of Fleischman proves to be an excellent application in TV fiction paradigm of the journey of the hero of Joseph Campbell and demonstrates that, from central theme of fish out of water, Northerm Exposure is the symbol of the fish in a metaphorical connection with the process of maturation and self Joel (imaginary border). Since the beginning of the series Uncle Anku Ed advises Joel to think like a fish until the fine in the series when a fisherman and Joel hermit tells Maggie that thanks to Dos-Relojes is refining think like a salmon going the trip to the interior of the fish (symbol of himself) in "Fish Story" (5.18), Joel undertakes, as Marilyn said Dos-Relojes to the long road between New York and Manonash. In addition, Joel ends returning to New York, renamed the City of Esmeraldas, and emeralds with the emblem of fishermen and sailors. Thus, the physical journey to Alaska and adapting it is a universal metaphor for the search, more spiritual sound, (I) oneself.

Author: AGUILA SOTO CORNELIO.
Year: 2004.
University: ALMERÍA [More theses of this university] [www.ual.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA.

Summary: The estudiorespondeal attempt to situate recreation in the context of postmodern societies. After a anallsis theory of the characteristics of the more advanced Western societies and leisure from the perspectives individualy social work has been carried out through empirical survey with a sample of students from the University of almeria. Among the major findings highlight the many features of the postmodern cultural condition found in the youth leisure, as presenteeism, the risk, hedonism, consumerism and the importance of television and new technologies. However, they have found differences in function of social class and gender. Also, we found differences in patterns of leisure according to the punctuation of young people in the scale of posmateriallsmo (v. inglehart, 1991, 1998). Ultimately, the entertainment of the young respondents is a good example of two contemporary social phenomena: on the one hand, the cultural shift toward postmodern values, and secondly, the continued structural inequalities classical and maintaining unequivocally modern traits .

Author: BAÑOS PÁEZ PEDRO.
Year: 2004.
University: MURCIA [More theses of this university] [www.um.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE ECONOMÍA Y EMPRESA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE ECONOMÍA Y EMPRESA.

Summary: THE OBJECT OF RESEARCH STUDY ON THIS IS THE TRAINING FOR WORK TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF TRAINING MODULE IN TRAINING CENTERS OF WORK (FCT) FORMING PART OF THE CURRICULUM FOR THE CYCLES OF FORMATION (VLCFF), BOTH OF AVERAGE GRADE AS OF HIGHER DEGREE IN THE STRUCTURE TO BE SPECIFIC TRAINING. THESE ARE PRACTICAL TRAINING ACTIVITIES TO BE DONE BY STUDENTS OF VLCFF THE SPECIFIC TRAINING IN THE CONTEXT OF A CONVENTION CENTER OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN SCHOOL AND PRODUCTIVE. THE ACQUISITION AND EVALUATION OF THE POWERS PARTNER TO VLCFF REQUIRES THAT PART OF THE LEARNING OF STUDENTS AND EVALUATION OF SITUATIONS IN SAME IS MAKE REAL PRODUCTIVE SPECIFICALLY SET OUT FOR THAT: THE POST OF FORMATION OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS TO PRODUCTIVE PONEN AVAILABLE TO THE SYSTEM TRAINING SPECIFIC. BE ANALIZADO CHARACTERISTICS, THE IMPORTANCE OF REGULATORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF TRACK FCT TO SURGE FROM THE LAW ORGANIC 1 / 1990 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM GENERAL EDUCATION (LOGSE) PARTICULARIZANDO FOR MURCIA IN THE REGION TO BE MADE A LARGE FIELD OF WORK OVER THE YEAR 2003. HE MAKES A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FCT IN VLCFF CONSIDERED IN THEIR GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND ITS CORRESPONDIENCIAS WITH SUB OR OTHER ARRANGEMENTS TRAINING: OCCUPATIONAL AND CONTINUES. IT IS ALSO DESCRIBES HOW TO SET UP DIFFERENT VLCFF AND HOW IS DISEÑAN DIFFERENT MODULES TO FORMATION OF CONFORMAN, CENTRÁNDOSE ESPECIALLY IN THE TRACK OF FCT: HOW TO ESTABLISHING, HOW TO DEVELOP, HOW IS EVALUATES ... SE ESTUDIA THE STATUS OF TRACK FCT IN THE REGION OF MURCIA AND DISCUSS AND DESCRIBE THE THREE GROUPS INTERVENERS DIRECTLY IN THE CONDUCT OF PRACTICAL TRAINING OF FCT: ENROLLMENT IN FCT, GUARDIAN OF CENTERS OF PRODUCTION AND GUARDIAN OF CENTERS OR SCHOOL EDUCATION. ESTABLISHING A PROFILE - TYPE OF EACH OF THESE GROUPS AND RECOGEN THEIR VIEWS AND ASSESSMENTS OF DIFFERENT ASPECTS COMPLETION OF THE PRACTICE OF TRAINING FCT

Author: FERNÁNDEZ REBOREDO JUAN JOSÉ.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA [More theses of this university] [www.usc.es].
Place of defense: ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE ENFERMERÍA.
Place of preparation: DPTO. DE ENFERMERÍA (ESCUELA UNIVERSITARIA DE ENFERMERÍA).

Author: BÒCKER ZAVARO RAFAEL.
Year: 2004.
University: ROVIRA I VIRGILI [More theses of this university] [www.urv.cat].
Place of defense: UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: Following the "plague" of strategic plans that began to occur from the nineties in Argentina and South America, we wonder about the reason and the sense of a Strategic Plan, ie for what or for whom there is a Strategic Plan. And therefore, in theory, which includes the development of strategic planning for the management of cities. Therefore, nustro object of study is the process of preparing the appropriate empirical relation to present a set of reflections criticism of the proposals for conversion of local management.

Author: GIRELA REJÓN MARÍA JOSÉ.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA [More theses of this university] [www.ugr.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y DEL DEPORTE.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIA DE LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA Y DEL DEPORTE.

Summary: This work stems from the unequal representation of women and men in the area of physical activity and sport, and more specifically in the conduct of practice físico-deportiva free time. The causes of this situation should be sought between the personal factors as among the social, within the latter is determining the role of education. This historical development has generated a number of myths regarding women and physical activity that have acted as a major obstacle to the integration of women into the practice of activities físico-deportivas. The socialization process has drawn different role models for men and women that we refer to gender stereotypes, and are reflected in the area of physical activity and sports. These stereotypes, beliefs, values, prejudices, and so on. Are transmitted primarily through implicit, is not, therefore, subject of reflection. This facilitates the perpetuation of the same and becomes a strong obstacle to the development of model coeducativo. System values, prejudices, implicit theories, previous conceptual plans, etc.. We refer to the concept of professional knowledge, which determines the behavior of teachers. This coupled with its emerging role in the teaching-learning process leads to propose its analysis as research subjects. This research raises objectives analyze, from a gender perspective, the possible relationship between the experience of students in physical education classes at school, the behavior of practice físico-deportiva, his experiences while studying in this faculty and the presence of gender stereotypes and physical activity. Also interested in knowing projecting all this on the future development teacher trying to establish different profiles depending on the variables examined. As for the methodology was chosen by the students studying at the Faculty of Science of Physical Activity and Sport at the University of Granada. Wing view of the objectives and prior knowledge of the scope we opted for the method descriptive. To obtain the data we relied on the art of observation and documentary in the survey, using in this case as a tool for data capture questionnaire. Validation of questionnaire has meant subjecting him to a pilot study that has prompted a series of changes, which finally has been composed of 41 questions, organized into six thematic areas: practice of physical activity, gender stereotypes and physical activity, experience in physical education classes school experience at the Faculty, expectations in teaching work and socio-demographic variables and academic life. Data collection was carried out utilizing the natural grouping, courses in the schedule of a backbone course, being self-administered with presence pollster. The analysis of data was performed first, a descriptive analysis via tables frequency distribution, and subsequently conducted a inferential analysis through contingency tables with application of chi-square statistician. The results lead us to the following conclusions: The positive assessment of physical education in earlier stages of education with gratifying results at a personal level is associated with high self-image. It attaches less importance to content like more, and they are better suited best girls, which will determine a lower presence in the physical education school. Training in education for equal opportunities for both sexes reversed this trend. Our student body "is perceived differently" because the projection of stereotypes about people generates 8 l has 479 quite valid, but not about themselves and their immediate surroundings. The valuation of the curriculum suggests that the increased presence of some subjects leads to grant more importance, claiming increasing them. Ignorance of other topics, such as education for equal opportunities for both sexes, it complicates matters as required in their initial training.

Author: Lurbe Puerto Katia.
Year: 2004.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: Departamento de Sociologia (UAB).
Place of preparation: Sociales (EHESS-Paris).

Summary: This thesis analyzes the speeches designed to otherness in terms of a health problem. Choose scenarios as contemporary social heterogeneity, France and Spain. For more analytical depth, says his field of fire to Paris and Barcelona and focuses its empirical research in nine mental health services set up specifically to address immigrant groups and exiled home extra (sociological study of multiple cases), seeking to cover the maximum range modeling teórico-terapéuticos performed to treat disposed of otherness. 'The disposition of l @ s otr @ s' under a metaphor summarizes the object of research: refers to the study of grief and mental disorders, while putting emphasis on the process of building a subject as' foreign', ie make it a strange and hence requeridor special treatment. In theoretical methodological socio-construccionista and critical guidance, the thesis aims to explain 'social production of alteridades' and understand why relations between heterogeneities are as they are. Try to discern the logic of integration processes / exclusion, at the heart of which lies the monopolization of the resources of knowledge / power. This research otherness disposed articulated in the interrelationship of three axes conceptual: "otherness", "health" and "biopolítica." It puts forth a conception of otherness, and on relational product of the logic of social distinction that are articulated in the dialectics of similarity (to the same world and equivalents) and the difference (as distinct world with their differences). The otherness emerge conscious differentiation and shapes from a certain socio relationship on the monopoly of the symbolic and material resources of power. Consustancial to any human grouping, the substrate is historically variable and socially manipulated. 'Otherness' evokes differences and unequal power relations. The categories of otherness revealed in this study are updated now in the process of EU integration and the widening of the gap between the Center and Periphery, whose socio-economic and geopolitical configuration rooted in Colonial history. Circunscribir analysis of otherness in the health field is that the analysis on health visibiliza bloody and imminent social inequalities: 1) Faced with illness and death, human beings are unequal and 2) The dimensions that structure social status and determine the 'possible worlds' (volume and structure of capital) impact on the biological nature of being. Health is the tropo (cliché) the interrelationship of physical and mental be (biological dimension of the difference), and the social and political world (socio-political dimension of inequality). The biopolítica the context is relevant to substantiate our study subjects. In its course, the thesis seeks to answer: I. Â What response introducing devices targeted specifically at users s extracomunitari @ @ s within two health systems based on the principles of universality and equality in access and medical care? II. Â What are the implications in terms of health inequalities to manage differently, and in some cases segregated, the health needs of otherness? III. Â What is the configuration of power relations that exist between heterogeneities, underlying the various devices interpretation and treatment of mental health care provided to the bodies disposed of? It has been bu 8 scado co 478 nducir a sociological research that incorporated triad "critical" (put into question the principles organizers of knowledge), "crísico" (awareness of the limits) and "creative" (sociopolitical implications of speeches) , aiming to go beyond a conventional sociology of health / disease to arm my approach to the subject of study by a sociology of knowledge that is highly aware of the ethical and political dimension of it.

Author: CASTELLÓ COGOLLOS ENRIC.
Year: 2005.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA [More theses of this university] [www.uab.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAT CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIÈNCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: This paper examines the production of doctoral fiction series of Televisio de Catalunya between 1994 and 2003 in relation to nation building. The author examines 26 rounds des from the viewpoint of production and provides information on the process of identity formation through representations. The key issue is to determine as there is nation building in the series during the period in question, through which social and cultural references is the collective imagination and how the decision-making process that leads to determine aspects the content of the series. The author part of the consideration that the nation is a social construct, with a cultural and political dimension, and that the national culture is an area of conflict. The nation is imagined in a social context and is reproduced through the mass media. The fiction series played a key role in the narration of a national proposal. To work on an exploration of the author applied the documentary analysis, hemerográfico, and working papers as bibles, domestic production criteria and regulations. The investigator also applied content analysis from viewing more than ten hours of fiction and more than three hundred chapters on various sequences. The construction and operation of a database containing 1,230 entries referential elements give an approximation of what kind of cultural references, social and political appear in the series. The investigator also implemented an in-depth interview with the completion of 23 interviews with major developers and managers involved in the production of the series studied. In interviews it formed a document with 1,213 interactions which addresses issues of vital interest to understand how this happens speeches and performances in the series as well as to know what are the determinants of power flows in decision-making. Finally, the author performs an analysis macronarrativo on the main arguments and characters appearing in the series. The results of the work show that there are elements referential significance such as the land and language in the construction of national identity. The territorial scope shows that, despite the political decentralization that has been attempted, there is a sobrerepresentación Barcelona in the series. The author highlights the reasons productive and cost-cutting as more plausible arguments that explain this fact. It shows that the series contribute to the normalization lingüstica because they limit a company monolingà ¼ and in Catalan, but also transmitted behavior patterns lingüstico as the integration of foreigners characters, or the behavior of maintaining the Catalan characters before Spanish speakers. The study shows the importance of the referees through the commercial presence of brands easily identifiable by the audience. It also checks for the presence of other elements of type history, folk or institutional, as well as social affairs, which raises issues and conflicts of today. The author argues that Televisio de Catalunya has implemented a political criterion on the production of fiction based on the mandate of the founding of CCRTV public entity, which requires that programming should promote culture and native language of Catalonia. The author shows that fiction series put into operation a projection of reality, a social proposal, which serves as the nation scenario, as a backdrop in which the stories take place.

Author: NIETO FERRÁNDEZ MAXIMILIÁ.
Year: 2005.
University: ALICANTE [More theses of this university] [www.ua.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: We have studied the dynamics wage capitalism Spanish for the past 50 years by linking the various stages of the distribution and behavior of wages to the phases of accumulation and profitability. The theoretical framework is the theory valor-trabajo.

Author: SALGADO LOSADA ALEJANDRO.
Year: 2005.
University: PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA [More theses of this university] [www.upsa.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: The dissertation focuses on the study of the characteristics of the presentation of news in Spanish television generalists with this main scenario: the communicative efficacy of a television news broadcast, and thus its credibility rests on the figure of the presenter informative, who must have a set of qualities to be able to conduct a proper staging. Similarly, it raises: A - The use of non-verbal communication as a factor in the communication act of presentation of news programs on television. B - The qualities required for presentation on television are limited to the genres and formats for television. C - The most important quality to the presentation of television programs gender information and news format, is credibility. D-news presenter is a professional career. As a general conclusion, the TV presenter some qualities needed to carry out effectively its business before the cameras. In the case of news, the specific qualities: professionalism, experience, authority, concentration, calmness, clarity, good image and good voice. Every one of them shows and somehow found the main quality, credibility. Furthermore, it notes that at present dominated by the personal style of presentation, developed by journalists who vocational, as they say, had a little training specific skills and communication skills required for presentation on television.

Author: REY GARCÍA PABLO.
Year: 2005.
University: PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA [More theses of this university] [www.upsa.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: The dissertation explores the range of thematic writer Manuel Vazquez Montalban, both in his work as a journalist in his literary work on the assumption that an author who performs its work in the field in the literary and journalistic, shared items on those written in those two areas. The study material has been chosen by Vazquez Montalban articles published in the newspaper El Pais, and the narrative works written in Spanish. It drew a representative sample, which was studied sentence by sentence. It is very important study methods employed, since integrates a qualitative basis with a statistical treatment, a thorough categorization, and various multivariate analysis of hierarchical clusters. As a result, one can compare the differences and similarities in the work of thematic Vazquez Montalban, and come to define the two public images projected that this author, depending on the level at which they are to see the light his writings.

Author: GOMEZ FERRER CAYROLS RAMON MARIA.
Year: 2005.
University: VALENCIA [More theses of this university] [www.uv.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES.

Summary: The dissertation aboda developments in the sport of judo practice in society Valencia. To do this, you must firstly contextaliza judo em process deportivización of contemporary societies, stressing especially the phenomenon on the export of a traditional sport origins of Japan to the rest of the world. Subsequently, the paper examines the practice of judo in Spain, and in the final part investigates, through in-depth interview, evolution (implantation and subsequent development) judo event in Valencia, addressed various issues such as gender bias, track clubs judo and federated practice, as well as the gradual bifurcation between judo competition and high judo oriented school and recreation.

Author: PÉREZ MAILLO Mº AURORA.
Year: 2005.
University: PONTIFICIA DE SALAMANCA [More theses of this university] [www.upsa.es].
Place of defense: UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA DE SALAMNCA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF HEARING. STRATEGIES COMUNICATIVAS APPLICABLE TO NEWSLETTERS TIMES. Author: Aurora Perez Maíllo The thesis aims to study the analysis of listening in the radio bulletin. The research part of the next general hypothesis: the communicative strategies, derived from the processing cycle of listening comprehension and expressive conditionalities radio channel, foster understanding of the radio messages. First, the thesis examines the processing cycle of listening to conduct an approximation of what could be the psychological characterization or auditory behavior of a "oyente-tipo" who tries to understand a message sound. Secondly, it analyzes the characteristics of the radio information, the peculiarities of the message emanating from the technical constraints of the radio channel and the type of news programs on the radio, thus leading to the definition and characteristics of the bulletin schedule. Thirdly, there is a characterization of the kind of listening that is submitted to the radio listener "and then define and identify each of the communicative strategies -coherencia, cohesion and adequacy you will use the communicator in the development a bulletin schedule easily understandable for the audience. Fourthly, undergo the test communicative strategies arising from the processing cycle of listening comprehension applied in the construction of a newsletter schedule. The results confirm the hypothesis that part of the investigation. V