Animus 

Abstract: Este articulo tiene como objetivo realizar una revision critica y actualizada -aunque no exhaustiva-, del Framing , entendido como un programa de investigacion multiparadigmatico (D’ANGELO, 2002, 2012) que aborda el proceso comunicacional mediatico de manera integral, en un doble sentido: primero, permite elaborar un modelo que integre todas las instancias de la comunicacion (MATTHES, 2010; REESE, 2007); porque funciona como una meta-teoria integrada por distintas posturas teoricas y paradigmas. Asi, provee de herramientas teoricas para la investigacion de cada instancia comunicacional por separado. En este ultimo sentido, el trabajo enuncia una propuesta teorico-metodologica para el analisis de los frames noticiosos, dado que estos constituyen el punto de partida de la familia de investigaciones integrales de framing (VAN GORP, 2007).

Abstract: In several recent presidential addresses of the American Sociological Association, it has been argued that sociologists should regenerate and get involved in what public sociologists call the ‘publics’, in order to promote critical and reflective discourses (Gans 1989; Adams 1998: 20-21; Piven 2004; Burawoy 2005a). A public, according to C.Wright Mills’ definition, is an arena in which the required physical (communication facilities) and intellectual (ability to think and argue) conditions for democratic debates are present (Ossewaarde 2007). These discussions result in well-informed opinions, which in turn find an outlet for effective action, even against the prevailing system of authority, if necessary (Mills 1956: 303-4). Through such conversions and ‘reflexive self-examination’ (Gouldner 1976: 215), people, like students, media representatives, citizens and so on, can better comprehend social patterns of oppression and delusion, and also act accordingly. Publics are ‘webs of critical discourse’ which contribute towards the formation of the democratic will of ‘lay citizens’, who can directly and competently get involved in the political process of determining the paths along which the world is to develop (Emirbayer and Sheller 1998). The hope of public sociology is, in Mills’ words (1956: 299), ‘that truth and justice will somehow come out of society as a great apparatus of free discussion.’ The Socratic tradition to which public sociology belongs is criticized by Friedrich Nietzsche in

Abstract: Various levels of feminist criticism of Hegel's account of woman and family, both contentious and sophisticated, are examined. While finding much that is telling and valid in them, the author finds much that is uncomprehended and much that stands to be learned about the issues in question were the texts allowed to speak for themselves.