DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL POLICY

Author: BELO DA FONTE ISOLDA.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: CIENCIAS ECONOMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: ECONÓMICAS.

Summary: The research part of the idea that old age is a constitution that reflected social and sonsolida through speeches or produced knowledge about it. In this sense, it has some major objectives: to contribute to the identification of -- old age and possible alternative for the elderly from the speeches produced in the sphere of collective self; identify the process of building speech regemóneico on aging :; evaluation educuación's theory of the new social movements in order to understand the reality of older people living in societies that originated the process of population aging.

Author: BELO DA FONTE ISOLDA.
Year: 2003.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of preparation: ECONÓMICAS.

Summary: The research part of the idea that vejes is a social construction, which is manifested and consolidates through speeches or produced knowledge about it. In this sense, is main objectives: to contribute to the identification of the images of old age and possible --- for the elderly from the speeches produced within the same group, identify the process of construction of the speech -- old age, to evaluate the adequacy of the theory of the new movements of the theory of the new social movements in order to understand the reality of the people best organized societies living in the process of population aging.

Author: ARAYA CHACON PATRICIA.
Year: 2004.
University: SALAMANCA [www.usal.es].
Place of defense: SALON DE GRADOS DEL FES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES.

Summary: This paper attempts to summarize a study on the development of women conducted for seven years between Costa Rica and Spain. It discusses public policy for women heads of household. Participants of these development programs belong to impoverished areas who suffer greater periods of unemployment and discrimination. Also present low-skilled and lower wages in their temporary jobs. The document was discussed in the Program CLARA, developed in Spain, and the Program for Women Heads of Households conducted in Costa Rica. The thrust of these programs arising from the Fourth World Conference on women held in Beijing, China in 1995. Groups of people chosen for this study have been selected geographical, temporal and spatial, according to the proposed objectives. The intent of this study is to see how the effectiveness of the programs depends on personal provide tools to women participants for insertion into the labor market, thus guaranteeing the breakdown of the circles of violence and impoverishment of women and their families. The paper says that the natural balance of mankind in matters of gender equity, will only be achieved with the implementation of social policies and government strategies, giving strengthening gender identity especially in preventive programs aimed at the population female teen and preteen in terms of social risk.

Author: GUILLÉN LÚGIGO MANUELA.
Year: 2005.
University: NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA [www.uned.es].
Place of defense: CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: APPROACH The thesis explores some of the socio-cultural changes associated with the insertion of Mexico in the globality and its impact on the subjectivity of social actors. The northern border of Mexico is an area in which the reconfiguration economic, productive and social processes are particularly visible. The state of Sonora, and in particular its capital city (which by its proximity to the United States represents a strategic enclave for the implementation of the export manufacturing industry), constitute an observatory in which the traditional and the modern, global and local acquire a specific historic achievement. Linking this with the whole region has involved simultaneous processes of economic growth and development but also for certain groups of exclusion and precarious for many others. The city of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora, offers a dual image of prosperity and backwardness that is visible on the coexistence of urban areas and branded interstitial spaces which have been the product of invasions (illegal appropriation of urban land) carried out primarily by rural migrants from various areas of the state and national geography. The study addresses the inquiry into the nature of such creconfiguraciones, especially for the purposes of these transmutations in subjectivity and the identities of those living in the periphery delas growing cities. Interesting, then, to understand the dimension of this exclusive city while dual purpose of perception, that is, from the perspectives and views (the referees) to you, and depending on their position in the social space goal , the social actors come to represent and give meaning to the "moment" (or "time") of the historical flow in which they are located. STRATEGY METHODOLOGY The methodological strategy consisted of a combination of methods and techniques for quantitative (exploitation of secondary data, census and survey on family perception of the place -éste last conducted in primary and secondary schools in the colonies San Luis and Combat) and qualitative (in-depth interview and ethnographic observation), which together allowed recognize scene investigation (characteristics) and the meanings from which social actors give the sense of living reality. This study went to the corpus discursive produced through interviews to identify, on the one hand, the sense of place and on the other representations on other areas of the lives of subjects such as family, work, leisure and outside the interactions. The consideration of generation criterion in the selection of the interviewees made possible differentiate perceptions (appraisals, meanings) and appreciate the culture and values change between subjects of different generation who have lived times (and social) different in the process of redesigning the region under study. INPUTS Some of the contributions of this work are: "Show how the contradictory effects of the globalization process, seen from its banks, is also manifest in the subjectivities and identities of the most vulnerable groups". "Show that the scenes of the areas called" developing "the so-called cultural hybridization is a process associated with urban sprawl in which discrete practices that existed in isolation combine to generate new structures, practices, objects and meanings."

Author: TORRALBA ROSELLO JOSEP MARIA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The objectives of the thesis focused on search and identify the factors in the social and / or institutional most impact on the length of stay of children and adolescents admitted to various centers residential educational action in the province of Barcelona. Analyzing processes --- and income from them, the containment done by the educational team from each of the centers difficulties intervention and coordination among professionals involved, as well as the dynamics that are stigmatized for the resident population . The methodology has been used in the analysis of information from the records of residents contrasted with those drawn from the meetings with the educational team and individual interviews held with children and adolescents. The sample population of field work has been of 350 individuals. Conclusions As it is confirmed that there are some factors that affect the prolongation of stay of children in the centers. These are: the current age of the child, their personal characteristics, frequency correlation family situations and / or risk activities of the parents and the relational situation between them. It also notes that live in a place behaves a certain perception of stigma by children. The thesis is divided into four parts, the first includes an introduction and a review of the state of affairs, the second the theoretical framework and legal, the third includes the formulation of assumptions and methodology used, and in the fourth and final are analyzed and interpreting the results and findings.

Author: PARÍS FERRANDO ANNA.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE ECONÓMICAS.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA - FACULTAD DE ECONÓMICAS.

Summary: This thesis explores, from the social and political perspective, participatory experiences that are developed at the local level. Main Scenario: analyze whether there are constraints and external internosa these experiences that generate models of --- --- participatory. We note 3 different models depending on the combination of elements detected as a result of field work: a model of participation representative, a model and a model inclusive Republican.

Author: FRANCISCO JOSÉ FRANCÉS GARCÍA.
Year: 2006.
University: ALICANTE [www.ua.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS Y EMPRESARIALES.

Summary: The thesis presents the approach of empirical research to citizen participation in a non-associative. The growing interest by institutional and academic new forms of citizen participation in governance, coupled with the growing changes happening in the scene are participatory recommended in a restatement of the meanings and strategies of citizens in relation to their involvement within the area pública.Diversas investigations show a growing disaffection of subjects concerning space and channels for social participation own representative democracies. The remoteness of politics and politicians as operating in the western representative democracies, coupled with the crisis in other key players in the dialogue between institutions and ciuidadanos, such as partnerships and formal groups, showing a scene participatory changing , which is trying to occupy this tesis.El analysis of the characteristics of a new space emerging participatory and place him in the new forms of participation are central to this tesis.En this regard is conducting a review of the different channels of participation and their reach in relation to three dimensions own participatory processes: inclusiveness, strength and influence as vehicles for social and political action. Parallel explores, through the technique of structural models of covariances, several explanatory variables and structures around the motivations and behaviors of participatory sujetos.De information built from this analysis is the empirical approach of two figures participatory concrete likely to be classified within the mechanisms of democratic local innovation: the Participatory Budget and Binding Citizen Forum, both as a concrete experiences developed in the municipality of Petrer (Alicante). analysis of these experiments shows the suitability of these figures participatory Regarding the above three dimensions and its perception by people not associated concluded the relevance of these processes in the local context as a tool for involving civil society in the management of public resources, reached a satisfactory level of complementarity with traditional forms of participation.