Globalizacion, centro y fronteras simbólicas en la teoría sobre la sociedad contemporánea

This paper focuses on specific implications of the process of globalisation taking place in Western societies and the efforts to build a theory of modem societies by several classic and contemporary sociologists. It argües that the scope of the changes generated by this macro process requires an in depth revisión of the theory of modem society. For that purpose, it also focuses on the breakdown of the monolithic image of the latter and the functionalist model of the unity of knowledge at the University, which are interrelated. It reviews the influence of the idea that there is symbolic centre of society which provides the basis for the evaluation of knowledge and which regulates the boundaries between the economy, politics and culture in information societies.Este trabajo analiza algunas implicaciones del proceso de globalización de las sociedades occidentales desde una perspectiva constructivista y sostiene que la magnitud de los cambios generados por ese proceso requiere una revisión en profundidad de la teoría sobre la sociedad moderna. Para ello, se presta especial atención a la crisis de la imagen monolítica de la sociedad y de la teoría funcionalista sobre la unidad del saber en la Universidad. El trabajo examina la influencia que ha tenido la idea según la cual existe un lugar central institucional que genera los criterios para la evaluación de los conocimientos y regula las relaciones entre el orden tecnoeconómico, la política y la cultura en las sociedades de la información

Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron

The CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron have measured the asymmetry between yields of forward- and backward-produced top and antitop quarks based on their rapidity difference and the asymmetry between their decay leptons. These measurements use the full data sets collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt s =1.96$ TeV. We report the results of combinations of the inclusive asymmetries and their differential dependencies on relevant kinematic quantities. The combined inclusive asymmetry is $A_{\mathrm{FB}}^{t\bar{t}} = 0.128 \pm 0.025$. The combined inclusive and differential asymmetries are consistent with recent standard model predictions

New social movement: from ideology to identity/ Larana

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