(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-12) Sánchez, José Fernando
This article describes the main tests faced by individuals belonging to the middle classes in Cali, in the framework of its relations of friendship and couple. These challenges that affect different areas of your personal life, work and family are part of the relational dynamics that characterized such groups and that are the product of the economic, political and cultural transformations that have characterized the recent history of Colombian society.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-12) Cohaila Ramos, Edwin
This article attempts to observe the existence of certain similarities between trust that can be established between individuals and their local political institution, with habitual ways of relating that adjoin political clientelism. Certain similarities that point to question whether clientelism can be accommodated as a way to build relationships, create links and bring the individual to the political institution. The local political institution will be studied, and observe how relations have been builtin two districts of the same geographical area, through qualitative and quantitative tools. It will be noted that the usual way of relating learned still present and mobilizes the ways of acting individuals; therefore links with clientelistic characteristics are plausible to generate trust relationships.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-12) Berger, Mauricio
This paper proposes a situated reflection on the political potential of the concept of those environmentally affected, in a framework of fight for rights, in order to promote a dense conceptualization, according to the situations of suffering and violations suffered by victims of environmental pollution. First we describe an experience rich in examples, highlighting the institutional set of the injustices andthose devices of mis-recognition. Also we describe the communities formed by and for the victims. Secondly, we make a review of some contexts of use of the notion of environmental affected that can contribute to strength —in the particular case analyzed and by extension, to others— for a public and political self-understanding towards effective recognition.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2016-12-12) Bialakowsky, Alejandro
This article analyzes the theoretical and epistemological elaborations of Luhmann about the problem of meaning. Its aim is to trace the key tension that crosses the different inflections of his proposal: between a formal definition of meaning, with the distinction of selective actuality and the horizon of potentialities, and its taking form, parting from the operations of systems. In order to do this, three decisive moments of his perspective are studied. First, the article focuses on his claim to formally conceptualize and to «desubjectivize» meaning, within a series of theoretical inheritances and ruptures.Second, it analyzes the consequences of his autopoietical proposal, either by pointing out meaning as the coevolutionary achievement of psychic and social systems, or in its analysis of the linguistic generalization of meaning. Third, in his later works, with the intensification of his theory of the observer, the article examines his approach to meaning from the distinction between medium and form. Finally, the previous considerations are combined with his theory of evolution and differentiation of society, from which the article reflects on the particularities of the conceptual construction of Luhmann about meaning.
