The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

possible future lines and practical implications for policies in human resources. In order to undertake the study, an empirical investigation has been carried out with 150 participants, which allowed us to test the hypotheses through a model of structural equations. Given that organizational commitment constitutes one of the central predictors of intention to leave an organization (Meyer and Herscovitch, 2001), when opting to extend the model this variable was included, allowing in this way confirming

changes that are made the government influence directly to the demand. Fiscal policy is based on the theories of the British economist John Maynard Keynes. The idea is that the state can influence the economy by increasing or reducing the taxes and public spending. This influence is limiting the inflation (taken for healthy for levels of 2-3%), increased employment and maintain the value of money. The main instruments of fiscal policy are: • Changes in volume and

affairs and processes without a prescribed world government. Correspondingly, it offers real and accommodate problem-solving engagements in social, environment, economic and political issues (Iorio, 2014). There are various entities within the global sphere where

INTRODUCTION According to some theories the creation of welfare state was partly a result of a power struggle between different social classes. The working class was at the head of the emerging social movements, which pushed the welfare state ahead. Social democratic parties were representing the working classes’ interests and successfully implemented social institutions and norms that are prevailing until today. These institution in a broad sense of term are forming the body of welfare state with

Cuban Race Relations I. Introduction- Retracing a History of Racial Scorn in Cuban Society: The study of race relations in contemporary Cuba indelibly requires an understanding of the dynamic history of race relations in this ethnically pervasive island of the Caribbean. Cuban society, due to its historical antecedents of European colonialism and American imperialism, has traditionally experienced anguished and even tumultuous race relations. Racial disharmony has plagued Cuban society

THE HISTORICAL TRANSFORMATION OF WORK 1 Chapter contents Work in pre-industrial societies Work in industrial capitalist societies Main features of work in industrial capitalist societies Capitalist industrialization and the primacy of work Crises and industrial capitalism Technological and organizational change The rise of trade unions Women and work in the development of industrial capitalism The dominant conception of work in industrial capitalism Summary and conclusions Further reading Questions

A Critical Review of “The Ambiguities of Football, Politics, Culture, and Social Transformation in Latin America” by Tamir Bar-On. Introduction: In Latin America, soccer is not a game; it is a way of life. It is mixed in with politics and nationalism. It defines social classes. How politically influential is soccer in Latin America? It is used by “various Latin American socio-economic elites in order to retard the acceleration of working class and popular discontent” (Bar-On 1997:1.8). Is it

authority and wisdom.   Social change, thus, was at the core of the foundation of sociology as a discipline. The preoccupation with social change, moreover, prompted the early sociologists to conceive of developmental schemes to account for the transformation of society. We should bear in mind that the impressive advances of biology during the 19th Century, coupled with the impact of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, must have paved the way for the conception of society as an entity that goes through

SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE   "The air does not cease to have weight," writes Durkheim, "although we no longer feel that weight."(1) The point is, of course, how do we know that there is that thing called "air" out there if we do not feel its presence? What Durkheim was interested to show, indeed, was that those elements of reality that he came to call social facts(2) were out there, regardless of whether the individuals felt their presence or not. Actually, the individuals are almost never aware

confesses: "All these forms of self-observation have the tendency to gloss over and neglect individual differences because they are interested in what is general in man and its variability." Not, however, in his particular situation and in the real transformations he undergoes. In its neutrality, the generalizing order of Mannheim 's conceptual world is kindly disposed to the real world; it employs the terminology of social criticism while removing its sting. The concept of society as such is rendered impotent