Populismo, democracia y política social en Venezuela.
Resumen en: This article examines the main characters of the Venezuelan populism and its relation with the democracy and social policy, particularly with the strate...
Hugo Chávez: La articulación de un sentido para la acción colectiva
El proposito de este articulo es explorar ciertos aspectos de la construccion simbolica del discurso de Hugo Chavez Frias, para disenar algunas hipotesis de trabajo y plantear interrogantes sobre las claves discursivas que permiten la construccion y orientacion de una accion colectiva, que lo llevo del intento frustrado de golpe militar a la conquista democratica de la Presidencia de la Republica.Para alcanzar tal objetivo se presentan algunas consideraciones teoricas sobre las condiciones de la produccion del sentido de la accion social y la importancia del discurso como acto de comunicacion del sentido.Se concluye que el discurso de Hugo Chavez Frias permite construir un sentido politico articulador de la accion politica gracias a su anclaje en los nucleos simbolicos de la cultura politica del venezolano, y a laapelacion a la religiosidad popular.
Self-responsibility in health care/promotion: motivational factors.
This paper explores motivational factors at play in self-responsibility in health care and promotion. If people do not take responsibility for their health status, is it because they can not or will not? "Can" refers to the ability or skill to do something, while "will" refers to intention and effort. Each of these factors are analyzed in terms of their role as a cause of behavior in self-responsibility for the health status. Educational intervention to motivate self-responsibility is suggested as well as empirical research in how people attribute health outcomes.