SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND CONFLICTS

Author: LOPEZ BELTRAN ANA M..
Year: 2003.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.

Summary: In this study we sought to examine the interaction between the judge and participant in the drug court under the Legal Therapeutic model approach. In applying this model the role of the judge changed: to exercise a neutral role awarded the dispute, to facilitate the rehabilitation monitor progress, being a model and promote participation in programs of community-based services. It was used as the conceptual frameworks following theories: Approach Jurídico-terapéutico D. Wexler and B. Winick; Social Learning and cognitive processes of self-efficacy and self A. Bandura; Indefensión Aprendida M. Seligman and proposals for Marlatt and Gordon on the development of skills to deal with relapse. Analyzed variables, constraints and resources to develop in people their self-efficacy and self-belief, as domain expertise, experience vicaria through social models, persuasion and social development of physical and emotional. We examine the theory of social learning A. Bandura, assessing learning vicar in the processes that take place in these hearings before the judge can be an effective means to promote the effectiveness of the participants, through social learning by observing the conduct of others, and the role and modeling exercised by the judge (a) to manage reinforcements and penalties in the process. The judge in the Court of Drugs in its therapeutic role should encourage and motivate participants and implement ssnciones as "wise", in order to achieve the desired effect. For procedures that contribute to positive results discussed techniques used by the judge during the trial. Utilziando methodology did ethnographic study is the observation of processes in the room and talked to the judges (as) Highlights (as) at the Special Panels for Drugs in six Judicial Regions to know their attitudes, knowledge and skills in implementing this new approach. A questionnaire was applied to a sample of quarantine and seven (47) participants to know the impact of the role of the judge in his rehabilitation process and the degree of satisfaction with services received and observed procedures percent new (109) cases carried out in these hearings. Among the most significant findings are that the majority of the judges (as) allocated to these courts specializing in drugs (56%) had not received formal training on the subject of addiction, or the legal therapeutic model that is framing operation the court drug (67%). The observations of the process led us to conclude that only two of the nine justices used various strategies to encourage participation, to establish dialogue, empathy and influence mastery and self-efficacy of the participant. On the other side was significant that 93.6 percent of the participants responded affirmatively to listen to the stories of others helps them greatly in their treatment.

Author: CORTES GÓMEZ ROSA M..
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.

Summary: This study shows the status of minority groups in Japan, segregated and discriminated against for a variety of reasons. And Francis Xavier (1549-1551), referring to the "Japanese people are people of great courtesy," clear that "this is not the case with foreigners, who have little, and always make a mockery of them." This trend of Japan to segregate or belittle what strange has its geographical reasons: isolation of the continent, seas whipped by typhoons and temperatures, were impeding access to the archipelago. The strength of "Divine Wind," Kamikaze, engulfed the fleet feared head Kubilai Khan in the Japanese coasts in 1274 and 1281. In the Second World War, the famous word was applied to the suicide pilots launched in waves against the fleet of the United States, to prevent them from reaching Japan. An analysis of its geography, history, culture and legislation that attempt to explain what is typical Japanese feeling isolated, separated from the rest of the world, and that everything is different, inside and outside Japan, is viewed with suspicion, and therefore , segregated and relegated. This trend was accentuated with the policy of Sakoku (Aislacionismo), 1635-1853, which no foreigner can enter japan, no Japanese could leave the country. It explains also how in the twentieth century, in the midst of great change and upheaval, Japan achieves placed between 8 countries most advanced of our time. With regard to the recognition of "Minorities" is also an important change. As a frame of reference, has chosen the doctrine of the United Nations on Human Rights specific as reflected in the periodic reports submitted by the Japan Committee for Human Rights, and serve to reconcile what had been said to reality contemporary.

Author: MUÑIZ FERNÁNDEZ MANUEL.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE DERECHO.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE DERECHO DE LA UPV/EHU.

Summary: Placed at the confluence discipline of sociology and law, doctoral work explores, through the reconstruction of a particular court case (Rosa Velez Lydia V. The Department of Education of Puerto Rico), the difficulties in applying the dercho anti-discrimination when it comes to enforce the social rights (and, more specifically, the right to education) of children with special needs in Puerto Rico.

Author: ORTÍZ MARTÍNEZ ALEJANDRINA.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA.

Summary: Domestic violence is a public health problem. It is a complex phenomenon that has dimensions structural, functional and procedural. For proper understanding, prevention and treatment requires a multidisciplinary and systemic analysis. We present a theoretical model multidimensional interactive and inclusive to understand and explain the domestic violence. There was an extensive review of literature to account for the theoretical framework and discussed various intervention programs in Puerto Rico, United States, Dominican Republic, Spain and others. It was developed, implemented and evaluated an intervention program targeted to men who assault women in the couple's relationship. We developed a Handbook Working for the aggressor. We studied the profile of people aggressor, as it is a prerequisite to develop, implement and evaluate this type of program. It is a quasi-experimental research in which one group is the subject of tests prior to treatment, to ascertain levels of self-esteem, anxiety, depression, as well as the thoughts and beliefs of the assailant on women and violence. After undergoing the intervention program and eventually apply the same evidence that at the beginning. To control history as a risk factor for the internal validity, it was not a requirement for each participant to receive services or join groups which could mediate other variables affecting the independent variables. The program lasted 52 weeks, one day a week, two hours per session. The evaluation of the program, using the statistical package SPSS, showed that the cognitive bias of the mujer-objeto can be changed into a positive thing for the mujer-persona. The program showed significant changes in improving self-esteem, depression, anxiety and other variables motivation, empathy and self-control.

Author: LEITÓN BARQUERO MARÍA G..
Year: 2005.
University: PABLO DE OLAVIDE.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES (DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES).

Summary: The thesis presented conducting a study on the depth of integration of the gender perspective in knowledge and in professional attitude in working primarily in response to problems of social inequality with women in the Agency Joint Institute for Social Assistance in Costa Rica. This work involves result in a review of three key theoretical frameworks: gender studies, social inequality and poverty and how this situation affects women, and gender identity and socialization processes. From these theoretical knowledge using a methodology essentially quantitative but also qualitative, in terms of a questionnaire study on the various professional groups regarding their knowledge conceptual aspect for later through discussion groups on canvass training needs in the several groups whose work directly affects so Women in poverty.

Author: FERNÁNDEZ-CID ENRIQUEZ MATILDE.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CC POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA UCM.

Summary: The purpose of the study is linked to the process of shaping social stereotypes -lugares common estigmas- "identified" for a group of people - with intellectual disabilities, are pragmatic in their everyday impact and affect their ability to serve as makers of its subjects life projects. The content and the prospect of work have demanded a methodological process involving two dimensions relatively antithetical but compelementarias: * How are seen, how they are named, in the discourse of the media, institutions, families, professionals, Associations, persons with intellectual disabilities. * How they look, how they named themselves these people. Investigation techniques with which addresses both approaches: * Analysis of the information produced by the mass media on disability; interviews and open discussion groups at the institutional and conventional (Administration, professionals, families, Associative Movement). * Stories of life and focus groups with people with intellectual disabilities.

Author: ARRIETA ARANGUREN ELSIABETE.
Year: 2005.
University: PAÍS VASCO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD CC. SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICAICÓN.

Summary: This Doctoral thesis rests mainly on one idea: the beginning of the revaluation of community in our day within a local context and the hand of participatory processes articulated by the administration, in order to build a citizenry involved, responsible and committed . This process already begun, will be implemented in a real experience of citizen participation, the Community Development Plan of Altza, whose implementation and follow up the empirical dimension of this thesis. From this objective, therefore, takes place on the one hand, a theoretical reflection on the other hand, an investigation conducted on the basis of the experience of Altza, which today has continuity.

Author: PINTO RODRÍGUEZ M. ELENA.
Year: 2006.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA. UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.

Summary: This research aims to address a social problem that has worsened in Spain with over the years: youth suicide. The youth suicide appears therefore as the other side, as less beautiful face of the modernization process. How do you explain the rise of youth suicide in Spain in the last twenty years? How is it possible that there is an increase at a time of economic development, and thus the levels of welfare, and an increase in suicide delos young people who represent the future? It could raise as hypothesized that the rapid social change that has occurred in Spain is not without dysfunction or severe distortions that strike mainly to younger populations of both sexes, especially young people of the low and middle classes of young lso classes. It deepens, therefore, in the vision of sociological youth suicide, considering it to the immediate environment around them, ie, the family, education and the workplace in which they operate in order to establish whether they are determining whether or not in making this decision, in a sector of the structure of society, the population between 15 and 29 years old, during the last decades of the last century.

Author: HEERRANZ AGUAYO INMACULADA.
Year: 2006.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: This dissertation deals with the relationship between the growing importance and volume of migration flows and the development of what has been termed the Non-Governmental Organizations in our country. To commit the relationship is established between these organizations and migration flows is necessary resolve and realize what is the position of NGOs in the social dynamics that will shape the future of our societies. What occupy space? What capabilities to position itself as a legitimate actor, or even to become valid interlocutors lso interests of the collective immigrant from the rest of society? - These questions sum up the general approach of this thesis. While it does not seem sensible to expect that this research can give a definite answer to each question, at least an approximation to allow those traits that characterize and that allow placed as social actors is the fact of migration. It is, therefore, a look from the inside, since they themselves as actors, trying to explain its heterogeneity organizational discourse and action. This descriptive and exploratory research, develops an empirical analysis of three organizations previously selected on the basis of structural, organizational activity in the field of migration and social representation (Red Cross, Caritas and the Movement for Peace, Disarmament and Freedom). The empirical work is based on in-depth interviews with the various players involved in the phenomenon, as well as the collection of institutional documents. The analysis procedure is articulated through an analysis of the substance, both of the interviews by the players as institutional documents of these organizations. The second part of this dissertation allows the reader to follow the process of comprehensive analysis of all the material collected that has led to the body of the document.