The role of education in societal integration has been an recurrent motif in the sociology of education from its inception. Emile Durkheim (1977) in the 19 century was centrally concerned with the functions of education in cultural reproduction and the promotion of social solidarity; Talcott Parsons (1968) in the 20 followed him, designating social integration a primary task of public education...

The paper considers the relation of Shannon-type information to those semantic and hermeneutic aspects of communication, which are often referred to as meaning. It builds on considerations of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann and Robert K. Logan and relates them to an agent-based model that reproduces key aspects of the Talking Head experiment by Luc Steels. The resulting insights seem to give re...

The difficulties experienced by autistic individuals with regard to communication and language are widely known and well documented. Individuals with High functioning autism (ASD) are distinguished by relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive skills. However, problems with pragmatic language skills have been consistently reported across the autistic spectrum, even when structural langua...

Given the prominence and centrality of concepts such as international system or international society in the writings of classical ‘English School’-thinkers like for example Hedley Bull and Martin Wight, their strong interest in the history and evolution of international systems/ societies and their occupation with patterns of order in an anarchical international realm, the total lack of percep...

This article discusses the condition of pesantren in Pantura (the northern coast area Java) during pandemic Covid-19. phenomenon Covid-19 outbreak is worrying because a collaborative community that carries out activities without fulfilling social distancing. How negotiates themselves amid pandemic, and how it reflects adapts each activity. study aims to reveal pattern response religious related...

El objetivo del estudio fue describir las estrategias de orientación para la prevención deserción escolar en el circuito -04 cantón Cotacachi año 2021- 2022 dentro Unidades Educativas Apuela y Cuellaje. Para ello, se realizó una investigación tipo descriptiva con enfoque mixto. Se aplicó un cuestionario estructurado 13 preguntas dirigidos a los docentes estudiantes. Los instrumentos fueron vali...