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In a consumerist society obsessed with body image and thinness, obesity levels have reached an all-time high. This multi-faceted book written by a range of experts, explores the social, cultural, clinical and psychological factors that lie behind the 'Obesity Epidemic'. It is required reading for the many healthcare professionals dealing with the effects of obesity and for anyone who wants to know more about the causes of weight gain and the best ways of dealing with it.Fat Matters covers a range of issues from sociology through medicine to technology. This is not a book for the highly special

Preliminary Material /M. O'Flynn -- Introduction /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 1. The Decline Of Feudal Ideas /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 2. The Individualism Of Hobbes And Locke /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 3. Individualism, Religion And Science /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 4. The Theory Of Population Pressure /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 5. Doctrines Of Social Evolution /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 6. Individualism And The Question Of Democracy /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 7. The Ideas Of F.A. Hayek /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 8. Neoliberalism And Capital Accumulation /M. O'Flynn -- Chapter 9. Economic Downturn And Decline Of Free Market Doctrine /M. O'Flynn -- Conclusion /M. O'Flynn -- Bibliography /M. O'Flynn -- Index /M. O'Flynn.

[ES] El presente trabajo pretende poner de manifiesto las dificultades que presenta la aplicación del régimen fiscal de cooperativas como consecuencia de algunas cuestiones específicas de este tipo societario como son: la existencia de distintos tipos de resultados que además tributan a tipos impositivos distintos; la dotación a unos fondos sociales obligatorios, deducibles, en todo o en parte, cuyo cálculo se puede realizar antes de impuestos o después de impuestos; las discrepancias existentes en la calificación dada a distintas partidas por la ley sustantiva y la ley fiscal. En todos los casos surgen problemas de aplicación práctica de difícil e incluso, en ocasiones, imposible solución para atender tanto a la legislación sustantiva como a la fiscal. Si además unimos la existencia de diferencias temporarias que pueden tener origen diverso, la imputación de las mismas a un resultado u otro, o incluso el seguimiento de su reversión se complica sobre manera. Esta situación supone un clarísimo agravio comparativo frente a otras formas jurídicas, que no presentan, ni de lejos, semejante complejidad. Así pues, se proponen en el trabajo algunas soluciones, como serían la existencia de un único resultado con un único tipo de gravamen; o la tributación exclusiva de los resultados extracooperativos quedando los cooperativos exentos del impuesto sobre sociedades, al tributar posteriormente estos rendimientos en el impuesto sobre la renta de los socios de la cooperativa; o caso de mantenerse las dos bases con los dos tipos, eliminar las discrepancias entre las normas sustantivas y la ley fiscal, así como permitir imputar cualquier ajuste únicamente a la base imponible cooperativa. ; [EN] This paper aims to highlight the difficulties that cooperatives have in the calculation of corporate tax as a consequence of the application of the tax regime of cooperatives. There are some specific questions which affect corporate tax calculation: a) the existence of different types of results, affected by different tax rates; b) the ...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- The Effect of Economic Crisis on Social Living Conditions and Dietary Habits of Children -- Abstract -- Financial and Economic Crisis -- Dietary Habits of Children: Food Problem, Unhealthy Eating Choices, Physical-Emotional Problems -- Poverty Is the Main Cause of Food Insecurity and Hunger -- Linkages Between Food Insecurity and Obesity: Connecting Food Insecurity and Obesity -- Social Living Conditions: Focusing on Children's Health -- Poverty and Childhood Environment -- Impact of the Crisis on Infants and Young Children, Middle-Aged Children, Teenagers and Young People -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Chronic Diseases: Important Issues in Times of Economic Crisis -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Effects of the Financial Crisis on Health Systems -- Effects of the Financial Crisis on Chronic Diseases -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Impact of Austerity on Dietary Habits and Obesity in Greek Children, Adolescents and Adults -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Impact of Austerity on Dietary Habits -- Impact of Austerity on Obesity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Dynamic Comeback of the Old Enemies -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Context -- Definition and Concepts -- Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases -- Factors Influencing Emergence and Re-Emergence -- Ecological Changes and Land Use -- Changes in Human Demographics and Behavior -- International Travel and Commerce -- Technology and Industry -- Microbial Adaptation and Change - Antimicrobial Drug Resistance -- Deficiencies in Public Health Systems -- Breakdown of Public Health Measures -- Immunization -- Control of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases -- Antiquated Public Health Laws -- Poverty and Social Inequality -- War and Famine

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- AldineTransaction Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I THE DRAMATURGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Dramaturgical Awareness -- The Relation Between the Dramaturgical Principle and Dramaturgical Awareness -- The Drama of Self -- The Performative and Transformational Nature of the Self -- Critiques of Dramaturgy -- Dramaturgy as a Pedestrian, Nonsystematic Form of Inquiry -- Life is Not Really Theater -- The Legacy of Goffman -- PART II SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS DRAMA -- 1. Sociological Perspectives-Society as Drama -- 2. Concept and Method in the Study of Human Development -- Notes -- 3. Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality -- I -- II -- Ill -- Notes -- 4. Role Taking: Process versus Conformity -- Basic Elements in Role-Taking -- The Role-Making Process -- "Self-Roles" and "Other-Roles" -- Roles as Meaningful Groupings of Behavior -- Roles in Organization and Culture -- The Framework of Role Differentiation -- The Nature of Role Interaction -- Dynamics of Self and Other -- The Normative Component of Role-Taking -- Summary and Implications -- References -- 5. Role Distance -- Role Distance and Serious Activity -- Surgery as an Activity System -- Notes -- PART III THE DRAMATURGICAL SELF -- 6. The Self as a Locus of Linguistic Causality -- The Fictional Nature of Human Meaning: A Review -- Notes -- 7. The Presentation of Self -- Notes -- 8. Appearance and the Self: A Slightly Revised Version -- Identity -- Qualifications of Identity: Value and Mood -- Activations of Identity: Attitude -- Appearance and the Self -- Appearance and the Early Emergence of the Self -- Preplay, Investiture, and the Ubiquitous Mother -- Play, Costume, and Dressing Out -- The Game, the Uniform, and Dressing In -- Later Socializations -- Summary -- Notes

[spa] El uso de la violencia en las relaciones familiares estuvo aceptada en el estado español hasta hace relativamente pocos años, reconociendo y justificando el castigo físico con el fin de corregir a los/as hijos/as ante determinados comportamientos. El citado uso de la violencia fue cuestionado hasta tal punto que la legislación actual prohíbe cualquier tipo de violencia sobre los hijos, siendo este "modelo" sancionado por la propia jurisdicción penal de adultos. En el actual debate jurídico-social la aparición de publicaciones relacionadas con la violencia en el hogar han ido acompañadas casi al unísono de modificaciones legislativas a fin de erradicar el fenómeno de la violencia intrafamiliar. En este sentido, a partir del año 2005 comienzan a surgir las primeras voces de alarma ante el incremento de denuncias de progenitores hacia sus hijos por agresiones en el hogar por parte de estos últimos. El aparente cambio de dirección en torno a la violencia pareció generar cierto desconcierto al nutrido grupo de profesionales procedentes de múltiples disciplinas dedicados al estudio de la violencia en la infancia y adolescencia. Mencionado el cambio de dirección en torno a la violencia se hace referencia pues, a la violencia ejercida de hijos/as hacia sus progenitores, abuelos, tutores, y resto de la familia extensa, es decir, la violencia filio-parental. Asimismo, la respuesta jurídico-penal sólo podrá ser abordada cuando las autoridades públicas sean conocedoras del citado maltrato filio-parental protagonizado por menores de edad. La dificultad del abordaje del fenómeno recae en la convergencia de varios componentes que dificultan su conocimiento y su posterior intervención socioeducativa. Entre estos destacar el escarnio y sentimiento de fracaso parental o la propia dicotomía existente entre la figura denunciante versus la figura parental, entre otros. También la dificultad reside en la intervención socioeducativa en torno a la correlación existente entre la minoría de edad del sujeto y las medidas sancionadoras estipuladas en la jurisdicción penal juvenil vigente. Así pues, el actual proyecto de tesis pretende contribuir a la actualización del estudio de la violencia filio-parental haciendo especial énfasis en la lectura socioeducativa del tratamiento jurídico del fenómeno. Para ello nuestro estudio presenta una metodología multimétodo, que combina la perspectiva cuantitativa con la cualitativa.Desde una perspectiva cuantitativa, se analizará la evolución del fenómeno, sus diferentes variables así como las respuestas dotadas por la administración en el periodo comprendido entre el 2007 y el 2015. Por su parte, la perspectiva cualitativa contará con las percepciones y opiniones de profesionales que desde una vertiente psicosocial y educativa intervienen con menores infractores y sus familias inmersos en problemáticas como las aquí descritas. La finalidad del objeto de estudio será por tanto, el análisis exhaustivo de la relación entre la violencia filio-parental y el interés superior del menor en torno a las medidas otorgadas por el Estado para paliar y/o reducir el citado fenómeno, realizado desde una vertiente social, educativa y jurídica. ; [eng] The use of violence in family relationships was accepted in the Spanish State until relatively few years ago, recognizing and justifying corporal punishment in order to correct children's behavior. The aforementioned use of violence was questioned to such an extent that current legislation prohibits any type of violence against children, being this "model" sanctioned by the adult criminal jurisdiction itself. In the current legal-social debate, the emergence of publications related to domestic violence has been almost accompanied by legislative changes to eradicate the phenomenon of domestic violence. In this sense, up from 2005, the first voices of alarm began to emerge as a result of the increased reports of parents against their own children for home assaults. The apparent change of direction around violence seemed to generate some confusion to the large group of professionals from multiple disciplines dedicated to the study of violence in childhood and adolescence. Mentioned change in the direction of violence is due to violence applied by children towards their parents, grandparents, guardians, and the rest of the extended family, that is to say, parental violence. Likewise, the criminal-legal response can only be addressed when public authorities are aware of the aforementioned child-parent abuse. The difficulty of approaching the phenomenon lies in the convergence of several components which hinder their knowledge and their subsequent socio-educational intervention. Among many other factors, we could highlight the derision and feeling of parental failure or even the dichotomy between the denouncing figure versus the parental figure. The difficulty also lies in the socio-educational intervention around the correlation between the minor's age and the sanctioning measures stipulated in the juvenile criminal jurisdiction in Thus, the current thesis project aims to contribute to the updating of the study youth violence toward their parents with special emphasis on the socio-educational reading of the legal treatment of the phenomenon. For this, our study presents a multi-method methodology that combines the quantitative perspective with the qualitative one. From a quantitative perspective, it is assessed the evolution of the phenomenon, its different variables as well as the responses provided by the administration during the period between 2007 and 2015. On the other hand, the qualitative perspective will have the perceptions and opinions of professionals who, from a psychosocial and educational side, intervene with juvenile offenders and their families immersed in problems such as those described here. The purpose of the study will therefore be the exhaustive analysis of the relationship between parental violence and the best interest of the minor regarding measures granted by the State to alleviate and / or reduce such phenomenon, carried out from a social, educational and legal aspect.

Mealtimes are about much more than just re-fuelling, and the importance of mealtimes in the care of people with dementia cannot be overestimated. Using her extensive experience of working with older people with dementia, Grethe Berg explains how mealtimes can be used as natural opportunities for meaningful interaction, socialising and reminiscing, and useful forums for taking part in familiar tasks. The book considers the social significance of mealtimes and their role in maintaining patients' feelings of social attachment and well-being as well as the impact of the symptoms of dementia on foo

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: The Dominance of Biomedicine and Colonisisation of Life Course -- The Bio-Medical Model: Biological and Psychological Aging - Science of Aging? -- The Dark Side of Bio-Medical Assumptions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- The Global Context of Aging -- Introduction -- Global Aging -- Americas -- Europe -- Africa -- Chapter 3 -- Age, Professional Power and Social Policy in the United Kingdom -- The Disciplinary Focus of Old Age -- Functionalist Analysis of Old Age -- Political Economy of Old Age -- Feminization of Old Age -- Foucault and Old Age: A New Domain of Theorizing Aging -- Introducing Foucauldian Gerontology -- A History of the Present: The Rise of Social Work with Older People -- From Social Work to Care Management -- Social Policy for Older People in the United Kingdom -- A Foucauldian Analysis of Social Policy for Older People: The Case of the NHS and Community Care Act -- The Foucauldian Notion of Governmentality -- Examples of Implementing Policy and Practice for Older People -- Chapter 4 -- Aging, Foucault and the Life Course -- Introduction -- The Power of Michel Foucault -- Modern Social Work in England -- Social Work and Surveillance -- Social Work, Power and Discretion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Trust, the Life Course and Social Relations -- Navigating the Conceptual Complexity of Trust -- Trust: Individuals, Organisations, Community and Systems -- Implications of Trust in Health and Social Care -- Linking Professional Authority with Trust and Governmentality -- Constructing Professional Authority Through Governmentality -- Conclusion -- Neoliberalism, Aging, and the Family -- Social Democracy, Aging, and the Family -- "Grand-Parenting" Policy -- Towards Diverse Narrative Streams? -- Conclusion -- References -- Author's Contact Information -- Index -- Blank Page

This book will serve to persuade students, educators, politicians, lawmakers, and community leaders in the debate on abortion. It will emancipate the reader from mundane and restrictive analyses, such as those lobbed by courts, legislatures, and mass media. It scathes routine constrictions and liberates fresh thoughts on specialized topics, including choice, penance, and parenthood. The book offers powerful perspectives about legalized termination and reduction, using allusions to cult films and images from pop culture to explore dark realities and seldom discussed principles of survival and procreation. Its analysis is bolstered by frameworks adopted from feminism, film studies, queer theory, religious analysis, legal studies, criminal justice, social science, and economics.

"Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other. Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after the country's independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family memories, ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction"--

An excellent study of indigenous businesspersons and entrepreneurs, with focus on their activities in Quetzaltenango, aspects of class and culture in business and factors related to gender

"Sluttish, careless, rotting abundance": prehistories of a climate dystopia -- Threatening dystopias: development and adaptation regimes -- Opportunity/crisis: knowledge production and the politics of uncertainty -- The social life of climate science: circulations of knowledge and uncertainty in development practice -- Autopsy of a village: agrarian change after the shrimp boom -- "We have come this far, we cannot retreat": adaptation, resistance, and competing visions of transformed futures -- Conclusion: climate justice and the politics of possibility

This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the context of a system that is in crisis. At issue are the devastating effects of the turn of many multinational corporations towards 'extractivism'-a pillage of society's natural resources.

O projeto de investigação que venho a desenvolver no âmbito do meu doutoramento em Arqueologia Medieval, visa reconstruir o contexto funcional e social do quotidiano de uma cidade medieval a partir da análise de achados cerâmicos. A área de investigação é a cidade de Leopoli-Cencelle, de fundação papal (856 d.C.), localizada entre as montanhas de Tolfa, na região Norte do Lácio, na província de Roma (Itália). A Universidade de Roma "La Sapienza" tem estado, desde 1994, envolvida nas escavações arqueológicas deste sítio, tendo trazido à luz parte dos bairros residenciais e artesanais, o setor religioso, onde se inclui a igreja e o cemitério adjacente, e o setor relacionado ao poder civil, como ruas, as portas da cidade, guarnições militares e cisternas. Metodologicamente, iniciaremos com o estudo dos dados existentes, de forma a atingirmos resultados mais complexos e que possam ser utilizados em grande escala. A quantidade de material em questão pode ser estimada em cerca de 100.000 fragmentos, divididos por unidades estratigráficas e classes cerâmicas, para o período compreendido entre os séculos XI-XII e XV, o que nos fornece uma série de dados morfológicos e quantitativos. Uma vez obtida a documentação completa da análise realizada aos fragmentos cerâmicos, os artefatos poderão ser classificados de acordo: a percentagem de presença/ausência e de distribuição/concentração; na definição de critérios funcionais; na complexidade do sítio de proveniência, com referências aos aspetos sociais da cidade, à articulação do espaço, à composição da população à vida profissional e à alimentação. Através da análise dos resultados obtidos na nossa investigação e o seu cruzamento com os dados extrapolados das fontes arquivo-documentais em estudo e com as metodologias de diferentes áreas, como a antropologia física, a etnoarqueologia e a antropologia, temos como objetivo final apresentar uma reconstrução antropológica dos aspetos diários da vida num centro urbano medieval. ; The research project for my PhD in Medieval Archaeology aims to reconstruct the functional and social context of the daily life in a medieval by examining the ceramic findings. The investigation area Leopoli-Cencelle, which has been brought to light through the archaeological excavations carried out by Sapienza University of Rome since 1994. This town was founded by Pope Leo IV in 856 AD and is located on the Tolfa Mountains, about 40 miles north of Rome (Italy). The methodology proposed starts from the analysis of simple data and aims to achieve complex results, that can be used on a large scale. The amount of material, that was analysed, can be quantified in about 100.000 fragments, divided by stratigraphic units and pottery classes. The material covers the historical period that goes from the 13th centuries up to the 15th and supplied a great quantity of morphological and quantitative data. After obtaining a complete documentation from the analysis of the fragments, the artefacts can be classified in their entirety according to: the percentage of presence/absence and distribution/concentration; the definition of functional criteria; the complexity of the site from which the fragments came from (with reference to the social aspects of the city, the articulation of space, the composition of the population, professional life and food). The final objective consists of providing a global approach to the study of the site, focusing on the anthropological reconstruction of the everyday life of a medieval urban centre in its complexity. The results obtained will be integrated with the data extrapolated from the study of archival-documentary sources and with the methodologies of different disciplines (physical anthropology, ethnoarchaeology and anthropology).

El presente artículo analiza algunos aspectos relativos a la producción de documentales en el campo específico de la inmigración subsahariana en España a lo largo de la última década, para constatar cómo ha evolucionado y qué variantes la afectan. Ello nos permitirá determinar quiénes son los agentes productores, cómo se comprometen televisiones, instituciones y otros organismos y hasta qué punto este tipo de creaciones se erigen en un canal de transformación social. Recurrimos para ello al análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo de un corpus representativo de cuarenta y un documentales de producción española enmarcados entre 2001 y 2011, un periodo en el que se han experimentado momentos de auge y crisis para el documental español en gene- ral y el documental de temática migratoria en particular. Este artículo demuestra que Cataluña ha sido en su conjunto la comunidad que ha producido un mayor número de documentales so- bre inmigración subsahariana y sostiene que en España su producción ha sido muy dependiente de los vaivenes económicos, las políticas públicas sobre inmigración, las «crisis de las pateras» y la propia dinámica de los medios de comunicación. Finalmente, proponemos tendencias en auge en la búsqueda de nuevas formas de financiación. This article discusses various aspects related to the production of Spanish documentaries over the last decade in the specific field of sub-Saharan immigration, to ascertain how it has evolved and what variants are involved. This will allow us to determine who the agents involved in production are, how televisions, institutions and other agencies are engaged, and to what extent such productions are made in a channel of social transformation. We use the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a representative sample of 41 Spanish documentaries made between 2001 and 2011, a period in which Spanish documentaries in general – and documentaries on migration issues in particular – experienced moments of boom and bust. This article shows that as a whole Catalonia is the community that has produced the largest number of docu- mentaries about sub-Saharan immigration, and argues that in Spain the production of these documentaries has been very dependent on economic fluctuations, government policies on immigration, the "crisis of the dinghies" and the dynamics of the media. Finally, we propose booming trends in the search for new forms of financing.