México: Por qué unos cuantos son ricos y la población es pobre

With this book, C. Wright Mills marked the difference with the elites that decide the future of their country, even when they are a minority in their country. And at the same time, he inspects closely the relation between the powerful groups in the US with the mass society and the equilibrium theory. This new edition contains an epilogue made by Alan Wolfe, in which Wolfe explain the most significant changes that have occur in the structure of the country since the first publication of the book in 1956.

"A collection of lectures presented at the University of Puerto Rico between 1966 and 1969. Includes presentations by Margot Arce de Vazquez, Jose Echeverria and Ivan Illich."

¿Por qué fue Francia el escenario de una revolución que, sin embargo, se preparaba contemporáneamente en toda Europa? Pues si las instituciones feudales surgidas tras la descomposición del Imperio romano eran las mismas en todas partes, y en todas partes había instituciones feudales, ¿en qué consistía entonces la anomalía francesa, cuál era esa especificidad, y por qué propendía y cuajó en una revolución sin precedentes? Las páginas de la presente obra –un estudio de sociología histórica comparada cuya aparición, en 1856, supuso un giro copernicano en la historiografía...

While gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originally published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher's magnum opus offers a profound and careful analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago in the early part of the twentieth century. With rich prose and an eye for detail, Thrasher looked specifically at the way in which urban geography shaped gangs and posited the thesis that neighborhoods in flux were more likely to produce gangs. Moreover, he traced gang culture back to feudal and medieval power systems...