CULTURAL RELATIONS

Author: LAPRESTA REY CECILIO.
Year: 2003.
University: LLEIDA [www.udl.es].
Place of defense: CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.

Summary: The region of Val d'Aran is located at the far nor-occidental in the province of Lleida in full Pyrenees. In recent decades, this region is undergoing a profound transformation process and sociodemographic cultural.La situation is determined by several things: A-A sharp increase in population, coming mainly from immigration. B-Coexistence in the territory of three official languages; occitano-aranés, native tongue of the region, Catalan and Spanish. C-Following the first two aspects, a situation of contact between different cultures and languages. With this basic framework, in our research we intend to analyze the process of constructing the collective identity in the territory. Starting with the combined use of investigative techniques social and quantitative techniques qualitative social research has shown the important role of language itself, both in the definition of collective identity Aranese as in the process of its construction. The articulation of this phenomenon with the social situation of the language in terms of their situation minorizada, an awareness of reisgo actual loss of its communicative function, and associated with it, their symbolic function allows comprnder the genesis of attitudes, actions and even different social conflicts occurring in the territory.

Author: BANTULÁ JANOT JAUME.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA [www.ub.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: INEFC - BARCELONA.

Summary: The thesis written within the approaches to teaching intercultural underlines the role that can operate gambling traditional cultural activities of human societies and stressed its importance as an instrument of intercultural awareness due to consider a good mediator in the dialogue cultures. Through the game, we can promote mutual understanding to promote rapprochement and exchange of attitudes that go beyond mere coexistence. The retrieval and dissemination of traditional game has to contribute to the building of a democratic society in which the values of a positive cultural diversity as a means of enrichment. The object of study focuses on the game engine traditional addressed from the perspective taxonómia. In the first part, which is the theoretical framework is on the one hand a thorough review of the existing literature on the subject, examined more than one hundred fifty ratings, and secondly, it made a new proposal taxonomic model COMET, which is part of the paradigm sistémico-estructural. The study of the first enumerations to be formalized around the game during the sixteenth century progresses attentive to the various contributions to be made until between the second and third decade of the twentieth century brought an end to attempts to establish a comprehensive explanatory theory on its nature, and closes by publicizing the game from different perspectives disciplinary, emphasizing above all in a wide range of classifications from the psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, education and physical education, have tried different aspects of the universe playful. The proposal taxonomic COMET, from considering the variables of the internal logic of the game (players, equipment space and time), and in response to various indicators for each of the variables, not only allows the classification of the various manifestations games intending categorizing, but also enables the completion of a rigorous analysis of all of them. In the second part of the thesis, carried out the taxonomy application, using the comparative method to identify differences and convergence occurring between five catalogs games, which have been developed to record five hundred and forty-six games localized demonstrations in Catalonia , Colombia, Morocco, Peru and the Dominican Republic, in order to determine which features can be entertaining cross. The sample is closely related to the recent phenomenon that represents the incorporation of foreign students in the educational system of Catalonia. In the discussion of the results are evident in many ways matches operate as the internal structures of the game in each of the five catalogs. Using the method of differences between them, shows that the differences are not very obvious, demonstrating the existence of a common profile playful.

Author: VALLEJO CRUZ LUISA FERNANDA.
Year: 2005.
University: SALAMANCA [www.usal.es].
Place of defense: SALA DE GRADOS DE LA FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE PSICOLOGIA.

Summary: The study, narrative and documentary content in the workplace, gives an account of the size, socio-political importance, the size quantitative and above all the cultural complexity of a particular problem: the phenomenon of mass displacement in Colombia. This analysis shows how, and how the "displaced" can not be taken as a description of the natural objective facts. That is, as a naturalized category, but as a social construct where competing interests, ideas and definitions of the real culturally diverse. The prospect of work is a constructionist reading of the phenomenon, so over the text seeks to document the impact that this has on social construction reality: On the subjectivity of the subject as much as on their social status objetivada through access to the network of services and resources of the state and parastatals. Faced with any mechanistic vision, economistic, reductionist or simplify the phenomenon, this ethnographic allows precisely documenting this complexity both from the difficulties of the institutional fabric designed to handle as transformations from the subjective and trajectory of the individual and groups who suffer from what the phenomenon of the displaced spoke of the transformation of a "state of emergency" in permanent status of certain States under the weight of their varied sources of crisis. In this half, the work suggests the same state in their precarious conditions globalized return permanently. In other words, the phenomenon of displacement competing definitions ideals of citizenship and human rights with reality more crude forms of action paralegals and deployment of symbolic violence inherent in the modern state