Science and technology (S&T) are more present in our culture, influencing our model of society and continually reaffirming our way of life. At the same time, knowledge about S&T has long been a privilege only of intellectual ...

Despite advances in the last thirty years, the Brazilian public health system still faces impasses for its consolidation as a social policy to foster citizenship and the challenge of breaking with the traditional care model ...

The construction of scientific knowledge is one of the objects that the social studies of Science, Technology and Society propose to investigate. This area of ​​study discusses the importance of placing scientific knowledge ...

Under the aegis of French Discourse Analysis, more specifically in Michel Pêcheux, the objective of this thesis is to establish a basis for a errancy (wander) epistemology: a theory of knowledge based on non-logically-stabilized ...

This work aims to understand the potential of alterity in the discourses of social propagandadisseminated in a network. For this, we seek to highlight social propaganda as a specific discursive genre - which takes care of ...

The capitalist social formation imposes to all the relations among the people the domination of the economic and material dimension. Freedom in the democratic social forms in which capitalist social relations reign does ...

The present study aims to describe and characterize the transformations of the handcrafted crafts in metallurgy and goldsmithing in Popayán - Colombia and São Carlos - Brazil, through a transversal study in relation to the ...

Television has acquired the power to influence the development of subjects with a high level of reach in the social categories of individuals providing simultaneous communication to different places. With these characteristics, ...

Solid waste pickers work as a fundamental element in the recycling chain, even though they represent its weakest bond, due to the precariousness in their activities as well as their historical condition as socially invisible ...

This dissertation has the proposal to discuss the importance of the not yet appeared words - in the standard lexicon - as tools to fight for equal rights for social minority groups and to understand this as an important ...