Abstract This action research analyzes the dynamics between potentials for strengthening and weakening inherent in social reproduction of young students. Based on historical-dialectical materialism, particularly Theory Social Determinants Health, analysis considered universal, particular, singular dimensions totality. The study was developed 13 emancipatory workshops, during a five-month period...

This article analyses Hosoda Mamoru’s anime film Summer Wars (2009) through its rearticulation of the lonely male otaku. A highly debated issue in and outside Japan, otaku community fans shares with nerds associations obsessive interests, technology, lack social skills. provides a counternarrative to such discourses by setting up story interpersonal ties an at centre. Furthermore, displaces thi...

Purpose: To determine if lower global self-esteem, shyness and low sociability are outcomes associated with SLI in adolescence. Possible concurrent predictive relationships and gender differences were also examined. Method: Fifty-four adolescents with SLI, aged between 16 and 17 years, were compared with a group of 54 adolescents with typical language abilities on the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scal...

This paper examines how patient advocacy organizations (PAOs) representing those with rare genetic disorders drive research to their concerns. The rarity of the diseases produces a basic condition of marginalization: small numbers of widely distributed disease sufferers. The lack of promise of an eventual market makes it difficult to attract the economic and biological resources necessary for s...

Conversations among Italians often entail many-at-a-time rather than one-at-a-time speaking. This “talking together” is a deliberate aim of parties and relevant aspect their social life. It variant system for organizing ordinary talk. We describe how simultaneity organized, participants collaborate to maintain the orderliness interaction, how, do so, they listen each other continuously monitor ...