This volume explores problems related to processes of importation and adaptation of Western cultural and institutional models and their effects on social structures. Among these problems, those related to the permanence of reciprocity ties in official institutions and their correlates, such as clientelism and corruption, stand out. The book will appeal to social scientists concerned with analytical problems and theoretical advances in relation to the issues at hand, as well as the wider public concerned with the trends and results of the importation of Western models in the processes of...

This book explores the social conditions for valuing education and the limits of sociology in addressing this type of problem. It will appeal to readers interested in problems related to the different conditions for valuing schooling and those most directly concerned with the difficulties and limits of the social sciences. As the book argues, what is currently at stake in education is the need to specify and recognize the fundamentals and distinct logics. Its central idea is that the main limits and challenges refer to the conditions of autonomy of the social sciences in relation to the...