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The Matrix We Live In
D o you want the blue pill or the red pill?” Since the election, social media has exploded with a special type of...
When bad mothers happen
N obody talks about the abuse or the familiar hands that we suffered it from now that we're (my siblings and I) are...
Does Economic Growth Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries?
Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers throughout the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations and...
Must We Confine Our Research to a Paradigm? Integrating Long-Standing Methodological Paradigms
Long-standing tensions between quantitative and qualitative research are far common issues in the social sciences research. The debate centres on the perception of the...
No country for machos: What is there about machismo in Brazil and Latin America?
Campinas, Brazil. A man breaks into a house and kills in cold blood 12 people in New Year’s Eve – amongst them, his own...
The riposte of Thomas Paine to Edmund Burke: “Rights of a Man”
This prominent masterpiece written by Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in the history of human being that embraced all aspects of rights of...
Gandhi and potential
Today as I write this the voice of Mahatma Gandhi is inside my head grooming me I think in ways that are imagined and...
Is Shame Universally Associated with Poverty? An In-Depth Analysis on the Last Empirical Insight
Poverty alleviation has implied an important goal for developing countries and policy-makers in the last century. Recently, organisations such as the United Nations or...
The power of citizen participation
Several times, the concepts analyzed in theory and the ‘how should it be’ don’t really happen in reality, for social scientists like me it’s...
The World in 2017: Under-Employed, Under-Inclusive and Under Threat
Economic inequality, societal polarization and intensifying environmental dangers are the top three trends that will shape global developments over the next 10 years, the...