The feeling of exclusion and/or inclusion in shared places: Syrian students' emotions and social imaginations in Istanbul.

This article examines the dynamic relationship between the creation of place and the formation of identity, specifically focusing on how Syrian young people are either included or excluded in Istanbul. This dynamic process enables the students to engage in placemaking. The majority of the literature primarily centres on the potential for inclusion or exclusion within the context of migration. Nevertheless, I maintain my view that the dynamics between insiders and outsiders are closely interconnected in discourses about space. In this regard, it is worth exploring how the concept of Thirdspace enables the coexistence of both inclusion and exclusion within the same spatial context. Based on ethnographic observations, virtual ethnographies, and semi-structured interviews conducted with 30 Syrian students, I employ the notions of "social imaginary" and "emotional space" to demonstrate the coexistence of contrasting elements inside a shared location. While I utilised a framework that integrated geographical and sociological perspectives for my study, the unique aspect of this research lies in its adoption of the socio-spatiality approach, setting it apart from prior studies. While this approach opens space to the possibility of the simultaneous exclusionary and inclusionary functions of the spaces, the translocational positionality of the migrant groups fosters these contradictory interactions in the shared spaces. Gender differences and ethnicity (being Syrian) produce exclusionary functions, whereas being a student and Muslim increases integration into Turkish society. In addition to interactions within local relationships and transnational connections through religious communities, NGOs, and friend groups, these students not only resolve the tension between the past and present but also open the door to integration and bridge the future in the face of inequalities. In particular, women students solve the tension between cultural codes and their student identity with the possibility of transnational networks.

The Fourth Age in Prospect.

OBJECTIVES: Higgs and Gilleard (2015) have uniquely theorized the fourth age as a "social imaginary" of deep old age that blends notions of frailty, abjection, and the moral relations of care. This report evaluates the coherence and reach of the fourth-age imaginary among older adults in relative good health. METHODS: In a qualitative design and within samples at 5 sites (in Czechia, Germany, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States), 138 adults aged 70+ and still living independently discussed what it would mean to be "not independent" in later life. Replies referenced other people in general, specific people, and one's own actual or potential experience. RESULTS: Pooled across sites, the views of our participants confirm the theorized features of the social imaginary. Participants spoke readily of gateway infirmities heralding frailty and of frailty's abjection; expressed dread and abhorrence of dependence, some saying that death would be preferable; and were anxious about nursing homes and about burdening others with an obligation to care for them. DISCUSSION: The bleak but formidable reputation of the fourth age impinges on those living in the third. The consonant expression of fourth-age features among older adults on 3 continents supports Gilleard and Higgs's claim that the fourth-age imaginary "contains a universal ontological quality" owing to human corporeality and the senescence to which it is subject. Fourth-age studies that document the lived experience of frailty and dependence have the potential to undermine the imaginary and furnish new narratives for facing the future.

Cultural Image of Older People during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has made evident the exclusion to which older people may be subjected for reasons of age. This study delves into the cultural image of older adults during the pandemic from the perspective of people between 60 and 81 years of age. Through a qualitative methodology, the voices of 37 people have been collected through in-depth interviews. Two main themes are derived from the inductive analysis: on the one hand, the devaluation of older people, and on the other hand, the positive image of the older population as older and valid. We conclude that people over 60 years of age in the Basque Country denounce the stigma of low capacity attributed to the older population during the pandemic. They reject the signs of age-based overprotection manifested during the pandemic and highlight the vital experience by which older people could be considered referents in situations of social crisis. They reflect on the initiatives necessary to improve the cultural image of the older population and point out the opportunities for active ageing, education based on values and intergenerational relationships.

Blockchain Matters-Lex Cryptographia and the Displacement of Legal Symbolics and Imaginaries.

This article focusses on the social and legal implications that blockchain technology brings about, not only due to its ideological framework, but also, and especially, due to the concept of law it inaugurates. Thus, this article claims, that, by interlocking technological and legal structures, blockchain technology initiates a profound displacement of legal symbolics and imaginaries. It shows how blockchain law, by emancipating itself from three essential dimensions of law-language, territory, and the body-implies a profound disruption of how we perceive law and its legitimacy. Starting with an overview of the technological details of blockchain, the paper then addresses its ideological context and traces the underlying ideas, values and functions and their relation with-and impact on-the general perception of law and legal issues. By critically assessing the claim that blockchain will liberate the subject from any heteronymic constraints, this paper analyses to what extent this technology has social and legal implications that reach far beyond its virtual, purely blockchain-related scope of applications-and why this technology should matter to us all.

AFHVS 2021 Presidential Address: critical praxis and the social imaginary for food systems transformation.

In this 2021 AFHVS Presidential Address, Kim Niewolny provides a brief foray into the onto-epistemic framing of critical praxis for sustainable food systems transformation. Niewolny proposes we engage in the creative entanglement of critical praxis and the social imaginary to "unthink" the orthodoxies that govern our ideas of the possible. She offers several possibilities as pathways toward a food system that embodies health equity, ecological justice, land sovereignty, and human rights, including: (1) agroecological research and movement building; (2) food, farm, and health policy; (3) food and farm system worker protections as public health and human rights concerns; (4) intersectional food justice scholarship and curriculum; (5) narrative-led, community-based, and action-oriented methodologies as multi-dimensional inquiry; (6) and multi-sector and multi-racial coalitions as dynamic networks that challenge linear, neoliberal, and technical-rational practices. Niewolny concludes with a call for radical hope as a principle for critical food systems praxis.

Boundary politics and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems.

In this essay, Kim Niewolny, current President of AFHVS, responds to the 2020 AFHVS Presidential Address given by Molly Anderson. Niewolny is encouraged by Anderson's message of moving "beyond the boundaries" by focusing our gaze on the insurmountable un-sustainability of the globalized food system. Anderson recommends three ways forward to address current challenges. Niewolny argues that building solidarity with social justice movements and engendering anti-racist praxis take precedence. This work includes but is not limited to dismantling the predominance of neoliberal-fueled technocratic productivism in agricultural science and policy while firmly centering civil society collective action and human rights frameworks as our guiding imaginary for racial, gender, environmental, and climate justice possibilities for sustainable food systems praxis. She concludes by exploring the epistemic assertion to push beyond our professional and political imaginaries to build a more fair, just, and humanizing food system.

Changes in society and young people's mental health1.

It is well recognized that many psychiatric disorders are strongly influenced by cultural and social factors. Foucault's account of the modern development links together 'madness', psychiatry and the asylum. We pick up the story at the point Foucault left it, the mid-twentieth century, to examine cultural and social processes that are reshaping concepts, discourse and practices - the 'social imaginary' - around mental health, with particular reference to the apparent rise in mental health problems among the young. We conclude that this apparent rise may reflect cultural and social changes in representations of mental health. In addition, over recent decades there have been increasingly evident fractures in social solidarity, interacting with and exacerbating specific socio-political-economic-environmental stressors on younger generations, including increasing intergenerational wealth inequalities and accelerating environmental concerns.

Epidemiological Imaginaries of the Social: Epidemiologists and Pathologies of Modernization in Postcolonial Africa.

There is a growing anthropological literature analyzing the place that epidemiological surveillance occupies in contemporary global health. In this article, I build on this literature and take it into new directions by exploring what I call the epidemiological imaginaries of the social. Drawing on science and technology studies, I suggest that epidemiologists help make up the world, articulating complex and normatively loaded visions of social life that both enable and constrain action. More specifically, I argue that epidemiologists tell stories about the type of societies and people that compose the world and that these stories often shape global health policies and programs in powerful ways. To substantiate this argument, I examine epidemiologists' efforts to map smoking in postcolonial Africa, documenting how they have imagined smokers and smoking through the lense of modernization theory and showing how these imaginaries have shaped tobacco control policies in the region up to this day.

What does it mean to be a physician? Exploring social imaginaries of first-year medical students.

OBJECTIVES: To explore if community embedded discussions with local community members reshape the social imaginary of medicine among students and contribute positively to their professional identity. METHODS: This explorative, qualitative study involved 35 first-year medical students who volunteered to attend a 2-hour forum at a local church to ask community members about their experiences with doctors and healthcare systems.  Student participants were asked to reflect on five structured questions. The written reflections were submitted for analysis, de-identified, and analyzed using Glaser's classic grounded theory, constant comparative analysis, and Taylor's model of modern social imaginaries as an analytical lens. RESULTS: The results indicate that student participants identified seven main themes regarding what community members expect from their doctors, including active listening (n=22), physical touch (n=18), and compassion (n=16). Responses also indicated that only 5.6% of the students felt that the preclinical curriculum was adequately preparing them for what local community members identified as important to patient care. However, students recognized that two aspects of the curriculum, Physical Diagnosis (n=12) and volunteering/community engagement (n=9), were congruent with the expectations of future patients. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that students identified educational experiences that were congruent with the social imaginary of patients. However, patient expectations were discordant to some aspects of the medical imaginary of medical students. The experience and subsequent reflections may be salient to contributing to each student's professional identity and provide a model for other medical schools to explore how the curriculum is fulfilling the community's perception of ideal patient care.

Significações imaginárias sociais e novos modos de sofrimento no trabalho: contribuições a partir da sociologia clínica social / Imaginary's significations and the new expressions of suffering in the work environment: clinical sociology contributions

O objetivo deste estudo consiste em repensar as antinomias das significações imaginárias sociais do contemporâneo, mormente no que diz respeito aos novos modos de sofrimento e investimentos subjetivos no trabalho. Partimos, pois, do pressuposto que nossa sociedade passa por um processo de transição, de sorte que há a proliferação de significações imaginárias heterônomas, que por sua vez estimulam valores, afetos e ideais específicos. Para além das contribuições do filósofo Cornelius Castoriadis, a partir da Sociologia Clínica e priorizando o cenário laboral, analisamos neste trabalho signos importantes que assumem protagonismo na hipermodernidade, como o crescimento da descrença, pessimismo, individualismo e do investimento na esfera privada, em detrimento da pública. Remetemo-nos, em última instância, a um novo polo de legitimação social, que exprime um código simbólico particular e se ampara na promessa da realização de projetos específicos: ascensão vertiginosa, reconhecimento, visibilidade e destaque social.

The goal of this study is to rethink the antinomies of the social imaginary's significations of the contemporary, regarding the new expressions of suffering and subjective investments in the work environment. In this context, we assume that our society undergoes a transition process in which there is a proliferation of heteronomous imaginary's significations that is stimulating specific values, affections and ideals. Additionally, beyond philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis' contributions, from Clinical Sociology and prioritizing the labor scenario, we studied relevant signs that play a leading role in hypermodernity such as growing disbelief, pessimism, individualism and investment in the private sphere, to the detriment of the public one. Finally, we discussed a new pole of social legitimization, which expresses a particular symbolic code and is supported by the promise of specific projects: vertiginous ascent, recognition, visibility and social prominence.

El lenguaje, Otro(s) en sí mismo: apertura y encuentro de la psique / Language, Other (s) in itself: opening and meeting of the psyche

El lenguaje es la posibilidad posibilitante que posee el terapeuta (psicoanalista y psicólogo) de acercarse al mundo psíquico del paciente, pues este es el umbral que se abre ante su mirada analítica y observadora, y ante su oído atento y sagaz; efectuando de esta forma un encuentro con la construcción subjetiva que el paciente ha forjado de su vida en su ser histórico-lingüístico. De igual forma, el lenguaje posibilita acercarse al discurso social y a los imaginarios que este crea, como realidad intrínseca en el sujeto, puesto que es una constitución que se funda en la capacidad humana de otorgar sentido y significación a la realidad objetiva y subjetiva, vivida y experimentada en él. Por lo anterior, se permite acoger a el lenguaje como herramienta que facilita operar desde el discurso y los imaginarios insertados por y en la cultura, ya que estos otorgan una visión de la significación y del sentido que el hombre ha dado a su construcción psíquica y como este lo ha afectado, y de esta forma se facilitará la apertura y el encuentro con la psique del paciente.

The language is the possibility that enables the therapist (psychoanalyst and psychologist) approach the psychic world of the patient. This is the threshold that opens before his analytical and observing gaze, and before his attentive and canny ear; effecting in this way an encounter with the subjective construction that the patient has forged of his life in his historical-linguistic being. Language also makes it possible to approach the social and imaginary speeches that he creates, as an intrinsic reality in the subject, since it is a constitution that is based on the human capacity to give meaning to the objective and subjective reality, lived and experienced in it. For the above, it is possible to accept language as a tool that facilitates the operation of speech and the imaginaries inserted by culture. Since these give a vision of meaning that the man has given to his psychic construction and how it has affected him in a way the opening and the encounter with the patient's psyche will be facilitated.

Retórica na divulgação científica do imaginário de vida e saúde: uma proposta metodológica de análise / Retórica en la divulgación científica del imaginario de vida y salud: una propuesta metodológica de análisis / Rhetoric on scientific disssemination of life and health imagery: a proposal for methodological analysis

Este artigo analisa o papel simbólico das Biociências no imaginário de vida e saúde, apresentando resultados de uma pesquisa de observação de capas de revistas de divulgação científica encontradas em bancas de jornais em três cidades brasileiras: Rio de Janeiro, Duque de Caxias e Porto Alegre. Apresenta uma análise sintética da observação das bancas e do conjunto de capas nelas expostas, utilizando quadros ilustrativos, segundo um esquema de interpretação da retórica presente nessas capas. Constatamos que os sentidos resultantes da simbiose imagem/palavra, difundidos pelos periódicos, são instrumentos persuasivos no universo de representações e práticas sociais concernindo um suposto viver saudável.(AU)

Este artículo analiza el papel simbólico de las Biociencias en el imaginario de vida y salud, presentando resultados de un estudio de observación de portadas de revistas de divulgación científica encontradas en quioscos en tres ciudades de Brasil: Río de Janeiro, Duque de Caxias y Porto Alegre. Se presenta un análisis sintético de la observación de los quioscos y del conjunto de portadas allí expuestas, utilizando cuadros ilustrativos, de acuerdo con un esquema de interpretación de la retórica presente en tales portadas. Constatamos que los sentidos resultantes de la simbiosis imagen/palabra, difundidos por los periódicos, son herramientas persuasivas en el universo de representaciones y prácticas sociales en lo que concierne a un supuesto vivir saludable.(AU)

This paper analyzes the symbolic role of Biosciences in the imagery of life and health, presenting results of observational research of science magazines found on newsstands in three Brazilian cities: Rio de Janeiro, Duque de Caxias and Porto Alegre. It presents a synthetic analysis of the observation of newsstands and the set of covers exposed in them, using illustrative tables, according to a scheme of interpretation of the rhetoric present in these covers. We note that the meanings resulted of image/word symbiosis spread by periodicals, are persuasive tools on the universe of representations and social practices concerning a supposedly healthy lifestyle.(AU)

Ontological Issues and the Possible Development of Cultural Psychology.

Ontological issues have a bad reputation within mainstream psychology. This paper, however, is an attempt to argue that ontological reflection may play an important role in the development of cultural psychology. A cross-reading of two recent papers on the subject (Mammen & Mironenko, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49(4), 681-713, 2015; Simão Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 50, 568-585, 2016), aimed at characterizing their respective approaches to ontological issues, sets the stage for a presentation of Cornelius Castoriadis' ontological reflections. On this basis, a dialogue is initiated with E.E. Boesch's Symbolic Activity Theory that could contribute to a more refined understanding of human psychological functioning in its full complexity.

La expropiación petrolera en los libros de texto gratuito: aportes al imaginario social

La expropiación petrolera de 1938 ha generado una vasta obra historiográfica en México desde poco después de llevarse a cabo. Dentro de ésta, podemos encontrar los libros de texto gratuito, que son obligatorios para todos los estudiantes de educación básica en México. Pese a ser un tipo de historiografía poco estudiada, los libros de texto gratuito son en muchos casos el primer lugar donde los mexicanos tienen acceso a la historia de su país, por lo que resulta una fuente invaluable para poder analizar lo que estos conocen sobre ella, así como la consecuente importancia que tendrá el petróleo dentro del imaginario social.

1938's Petroleum Expropriation has generated a big amount of historiographical pieces in México since briefly after it happened. Within these, we can find the libros de texto gratuito (free textbooks) which are mandatory for all elementary school students in México. Despite being a not very studied kind of historiography, free textbooks are in many cases the first place where Mexicans have access to their country's history, so they turn into a invaluable source to analyze the importance of oil within the social imaginary.

A expropriação de petróleo de 1938 gerou um vasto trabalho historiográfico no México desde pouco tempo depois de ter sido realizado. Dentro disso, podemos encontrar livros didáticos gratuitos, que são obrigatórios para todos os estudantes de educação básica no México. Apesar de ser uma espécie de historiografia pouco estudada, os livros didáticos gratuitos são, em muitos casos, o primeiro lugar onde os mexicanos têm acesso à história de seu país, por isso é uma fonte inestimável para analisar o que eles sabem sobre isso., bem como a consequente importância que o petróleo terá no imaginário social.

Diagnosis and Therapy in The Anticipatory Corpse: A Second Opinion.

In The Anticipatory Corpse, Jeffrey Bishop claims that modern medicine has lost formal and final causality as the dead body has become epistemologically normative, and that a singular focus on efficient and material causality has thoroughly distorted modern medical practice. Bishop implies that the renewal of medicine will require its housing in alternate social spaces. This essay critiques both Bishop's diagnosis and therapy by arguing, first, that alternate social imaginaries, though perhaps marginalized, are already present within the practice of medicine. And second, the essay argues that alternate social imaginaries in medicine can be reclaimed not through separatist communities but in the re-narration of conceptually underdetermined practices. Given Bishop's invitation for theology to engage medicine, this essay then draws from theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer for the kind of diagnosis and therapy currently needed, concluding with a contemporary example of how an alternate social imaginary is being instantiated in modern medicine.

SUBJECTIVITY UNDER CONSUMERISM: THE TOTALIZATION OF THE SUBJECT AS A COMMODITY / SUBJETIVIDAD EN EL CONSUMISMO: LA TOTALIZACIÓN DEL SUJETO COMO MERCANCÍA / A SUBJETIVIDADE NO CONSUMISMO: A TOTALIZAÇÃO DO SUJEITO COMO MERCADORIA

Abstract This theoretical work discusses consumerism's processes of subjectivation and their psychological consequences. Its regime is studied through its social imaginary and its totalitarian character: the discourse of advertising, as a global hegemon, absorbs all forms of discourse and signification, thereby actualizing capitalism's telos - the colonization of the Lebenswelt under a great imperative: everything must become a commodity, especially the subject. A process of totalization of subjectivity occurs under a commodification logic centered on the representation: every image must be transformed into commodity-signs. Thus the consumption imaginary appears as a totalizing ideology, functioning as archaic représentations collectives (Durkheim) and simulating a religious imaginary. It mass-produces subjectivity through participation mystique (Lévy-Bruhl) with its commodity-signs (and their fetish) and the whole imaginary. Its subject is defined as a bricolage of consumable commodity-signs, being therefore eternally fluid, performative, and ethereal. Thus it produces an anthropological mutation, the commodity-subject: a disposable, empty, thoroughly commodified self.

Resumen Este trabajo teórico discute los procesos de subjetivación del consumismo y sus consecuencias psicológicas. Su régimen es estudiado a través de su imaginario social y su carácter totalitario: el discurso hegemónico de la publicidad absorbe todas las formas de discurso y significación, así realizando el telos del capitalismo - la colonización del Lebenswelt bajo un imperativo: todo debe convertirse en mercancía, en especial el sujeto. Un proceso de totalización ocurre bajo una lógica de mercantilización centrada en la representación: toda imagen debe ser transformada en signo-mercancía. El imaginario de consumo aparece como una ideología totalizante, funcionando como représentations collectives (Durkheim) arcaicas y simulando un imaginario religioso, produciendo subjetividad en masa por medio de participation mystique (Lévy-Bruhl) con sus signos-mercancía (fetiche) y con el propio imaginario. Su sujeto es definido como un bricolaje de signos-mercancía consumibles, siendo por tanto eternamente fluido, performativo y etéreo. Produce de esta manera una mutación antropológica, el sujeto-mercancía: un self desechable, vacío y totalmente mercantilizado.

Resumo Este trabalho teórico discute os processos de subjetivação do consumismo e suas consequências psicológicas. Seu regime é estudado através de seu imaginário social e seu caráter totalitário: o discurso hegemônico da publicidade absorve todas as formas de discurso e significação, assim realizando o telos do capitalismo - a colonização do Lebenswelt sob um imperativo: tudo deve tornar-se mercadoria, especialmente o sujeito. Um processo de totalização ocorre sob uma lógica de mercantilização centrada na representação: toda imagem deve ser transformada em signo-mercadoria. O imaginário de consumo aparece como uma ideologia totalizante, funcionando como représentations collectives (Durkheim) arcaicas e simulando um imaginário religioso, produzindo subjetividade em massa por meio de participation mystique (Lévy-Bruhl) com seus signos-mercadoria (fetiche) e com o próprio imaginário. Seu sujeito é definido como uma bricolagem de signos-mercadoria consumíveis, sendo portanto eternamente fluído, performativo e etéreo. Produz assim uma mutação antropológica, o sujeito-mercadoria: um self descartável, vazio e totalmente mercantilizado.

Subjectivity under consumerism: the totalization of the subject as a commodity / Subjetividad en el consumismo: la totalización del sujeto como mercancía / A subjetividade no consumismo: a totalização do sujeito como mercadoria

Abstract This theoretical work discusses consumerism's processes of subjectivation and their psychological consequences. Its regime is studied through its social imaginary and its totalitarian character: the discourse of advertising, as a global hegemon, absorbs all forms of discourse and signification, thereby actualizing capitalism's telos - the colonization of the Lebenswelt under a great imperative: everything must become a commodity, especially the subject. A process of totalization of subjectivity occurs under a commodification logic centered on the representation: every image must be transformed into commodity-signs. Thus the consumption imaginary appears as a totalizing ideology, functioning as archaic représentations collectives (Durkheim) and simulating a religious imaginary. It mass-produces subjectivity through participation mystique (Lévy-Bruhl) with its commodity-signs (and their fetish) and the whole imaginary. Its subject is defined as a bricolage of consumable commodity-signs, being therefore eternally fluid, performative, and ethereal. Thus it produces an anthropological mutation, the commodity-subject: a disposable, empty, thoroughly commodified self.

Resumen Este trabajo teórico discute los procesos de subjetivación del consumismo y sus consecuencias psicológicas. Su régimen es estudiado a través de su imaginario social y su carácter totalitario: el discurso hegemónico de la publicidad absorbe todas las formas de discurso y significación, así realizando el telos del capitalismo - la colonización del Lebenswelt bajo un imperativo: todo debe convertirse en mercancía, en especial el sujeto. Un proceso de totalización ocurre bajo una lógica de mercantilización centrada en la representación: toda imagen debe ser transformada en signo-mercancía. El imaginario de consumo aparece como una ideología totalizante, funcionando como représentations collectives (Durkheim) arcaicas y simulando un imaginario religioso, produciendo subjetividad en masa por medio de participation mystique (Lévy-Bruhl) con sus signos-mercancía (fetiche) y con el propio imaginario. Su sujeto es definido como un bricolaje de signos-mercancía consumibles, siendo por tanto eternamente fluido, performativo y etéreo. Produce de esta manera una mutación antropológica, el sujeto-mercancía: un self desechable, vacío y totalmente mercantilizado.

Resumo Este trabalho teórico discute os processos de subjetivação do consumismo e suas consequências psicológicas. Seu regime é estudado através de seu imaginário social e seu caráter totalitário: o discurso hegemônico da publicidade absorve todas as formas de discurso e significação, assim realizando o telos do capitalismo - a colonização do Lebenswelt sob um imperativo: tudo deve tornar-se mercadoria, especialmente o sujeito. Um processo de totalização ocorre sob uma lógica de mercantilização centrada na representação: toda imagem deve ser transformada em signo-mercadoria. O imaginário de consumo aparece como uma ideologia totalizante, funcionando como représentations collectives (Durkheim) arcaicas e simulando um imaginário religioso, produzindo subjetividade em massa por meio de participation mystique (Lévy-Bruhl) com seus signos-mercadoria (fetiche) e com o próprio imaginário. Seu sujeito é definido como uma bricolagem de signos-mercadoria consumíveis, sendo portanto eternamente fluído, performativo e etéreo. Produz assim uma mutação antropológica, o sujeito-mercadoria: um self descartável, vazio e totalmente mercantilizado.

Saber, manipulación y poder. la universidad como institución social / Knowledge, manipulation, and power: the university as a social institution

El texto es una reflexión sobre la universidad como institución social, realizada a partir de varios estudios desarrollados en cuyos hallazgos se evidencia, en primer lugar, el interés de algunas estancias por convertirla en un escenario de manipulación y control, reduciéndola a la racionalidad de los organismos funcionales, frente ala dinámica propia que la universidad instaura como institución social cuya base se moviliza desde las significaciones imaginarias sociales. En este proceso, se muestra desde la lógica de la teoría de los imaginarios sociales, la forma como la universidad se configura e institucionaliza en una tensión constante, entre el sabery el control, entre la función y la institución y se dan las bases que la definen y posicionan como institución imaginaria social.

The text is a reflection on the University as a social institution, based on severalstudies developed on whose findings are made evident, firstly, the interest of some stances by turning it into a scenario of manipulation and control, by reducing it to the rationality of the functional agencies, against the very dynamic that the University establishes as a social institution whose base is mobilized from the social imaginary significations. In this process, it is shown from the logic of thetheory of the social imaginary, the manner how the University is configured and institutionalized at a constant pressure, between knowledge and control, between function and institution, and the foundations, which define it and position it as a social imaginary institution are defined.

The fourth age and the concept of a 'social imaginary': A theoretical excursus.

This paper explores the idea of the 'fourth age' as a form of social imaginary. During the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, the cultural framing of old age and its modern institutionalisation within society began to lose some of its former chronological coherence. The 'pre-modern' distinction made between the status of 'the elder' and the state of 'senility' has re-emerged in the 'late modern' distinction between the 'third' and the 'fourth' age. The centuries-old distaste for and fear of old age as 'senility' has been compounded by the growing medicalization of later life, the emergence and expansion of competing narratives associated with the third age, and the progressive 'densification' of the disabilities within the older institutionalised population. The result can be seen as the emergence of a 'late modern' social imaginary deemed as the fourth age. This paper outlines the theoretical evolution of the concept of a social imaginary and demonstrates its relevance to aging studies and its applicability to the fourth age.

Lógicas colectivas en el servicio público de transporte de pasajeros en Bogotá / Collective Logics in Public Transport for passengers in Bogotá

Este artículo expone las lógicas colectivas presentes en el servicio de transporte público en Bogotá, las cuales se establecieron con un estudio de corte cualitativo, aplicando el método de problematización recursiva. Se encontró que las lógicas se establecen con base en prácticas de pactos de complicidad de carácter bimodal entre conductores y personas. Los pactos tienen como base un trípode de sentidos sobre lo público: desinstitucionalización, homogenización y degradación.

This paper describes the collective logic present in the public transport in Bogotá which established a qualitative study using the method of problematizing recursive. It was found that the logic is established based on complicity pacts. This practice has a bimodal character between drivers and people. The agreements are based on a tripod on the public senses that are deinstitutionalization, homogenization and degradation.