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Consumerism dreams
Has Consumerism conquered our unconscious? Have we assumed its symbols and imagery to such an extent that they even become part of our dreams? Marlon Xavier's doctoral thesis, read at the Department of Social Psychology at the UAB, has explored how night dreams represent the colonization of subjectivity by the imaginary...
Animated comedies teach us television
The prime time American animated comedy, the best known would be the Simpsons or Family Guy, are characterized by the use of different genres, referencing texts from other cultural products and self-reference. Beatriz Gomez's doctoral dissertation has analyzed five of this series to reach the...
Social engagement of citizens
This study conducted as a survey in 2011 to a sample of 3,000 people of the Spanish population over 18 years old and living in households with telephones, has analyzed the social engagement of this population and concluded that 36% of Spanish people is socially engaged. This results are part of Sergi...
The Mesoamerican worldview
Montserrat Camacho's doctoral dissertation, "La imagen bajo la perspectiva de la cosmovisión: cuatro cosmogramas precolombinos mesoamericanos" read at the UAB, has interpreted four different cosmograms, or representations of the cosmos, from four different cultures, formats and periods of the area...
Innovation in Geography teaching
"Los profesores de Geografía, la innovación de la Enseñanza y su profesionalización: El lugar de los materiales curriculares", Viviana Zenobi's thesis, read at the Department of Language and Literature education, and Social Sciences education at the UAB, pretends a better understanding of...