Este ensayo es un inventario bibliográfico, comentado, de las referencias en el pensamiento económico sobre el tema del afecto y la familia, desde Adam Smith hasta los autores que recientemente han formalizado modelos sobre el tema. Dentro de los autores comentados se encuentran: Smith, Malthus, Sade, Fourier, J.S. Mill, Masoch, Engels, Veblen, Bou...
This article describes, among other issues, the network of relations held by the elderly that participated as informants in the investigation carried out by its authors, as well as the role that the spouse and the children play as affective backups and as somewhat effective resources for the problem solving situational natural or old age. / Este ar...
For a long time theorising has underestimated the importance of affect and emotion in decision making and the management of risk and uncertainty. In relatively one-sided interpretations emotions were often interpreted as threats for rational decision making, and could be triggered by uncertainties, which would go along with social change. Recent in...
Este artículo explora las lógicas de producción de afectos y elección de pareja en los jóvenes de sectores populares heterogéneos de la ciudad de Cali (Colombia), según factores de clase, género y raza. Sin pretender entrar directamente en la conyugalidad, de todos modos el texto sí incursiona en el asunto de la elección de pareja, bajo las restric...
The power of medication over mental life has become a symptom of a modernity that tends to abolish, at a subjective level, the ethical duty of every human being to confront adversity and make existence bearable. When the accent falls only on the chemistry of depression, the subject is justified, he becomes a victim of genetic inheritance, the chemi...
Se propone, bajo una mirada multidisciplinaria, una reflexión orientada a lograr un cambio sustancial no solo en la relación de pareja sino de padres e hijos, para hacer de la familia un nicho sensible que le permita relacionarse con ese universo bien organizado y de gran importancia, el sistema educativo, desde el cual se plantea la familia como p...
The focus of this paper will be reading affect. By working through examples of ethnographic research with domestic and care workers and their employers in Germany from a discursive-deconstructive perspective, I will show how a deconstructive reading of affect can add to our understanding of (a) 'the speaking subject' embedded within a discursive fr...
This paper presents our proposal on how to use critical discourse analysis to improve students� critical thinking skills. Initially we briefly outline some concepts of critical thinking and critical discourse analysis, and then we propose a reading activity in which students analyze two different and contrasting texts that deal with oil spill issue...
La investigación en educación matemática universitaria en la última década ha puesto de relieve la variedad de factores que influyen en la transición entre la enseñanza secundaria y la universitaria en matemáticas. Para iniciar a los estudiantes en la resolución de problemas matemáticos, es fundamental una actitud positiva hacia la Matemática y, en...
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of depressive disorders and associated risk factors among Nursing Program students at the Health Science Faculty at the Libre University of Pereira. Methodology: A descriptive study of a representative sample of 150 students from first to ninth semester. The self applied Zung scale was used to identify the type...
