Francisco Javier Tirado Serrano

Neurological soft signs in adolescents with poor performance on the continuous performance test: markers of liability for schizophrenia spectrum disorders?

Abstract There is much evidence that neurological soft signs (NSS) are highly prevalent in both adults and children with schizophrenia. In addition, they have been detected as early precursors of a schizophrenic outcome in at-risk subjects. Such findings point to the possible value of NSS as neurointegrative markers in schizophrenia which has been hypothesized to be a neurodevelopmental disease. In our study we used a biobehavioral criterion to select the ‘at-risk’ group, a sustained attentional deficit as measured by the continuous performance test (CPT). We compared 140 normal adolescents with 162 ‘CPT-linked vulnerable’ adolescents (index subjects) on a battery for the assessment of NSS (including laterality), IQ, frontal lobe function and schizotypy. An association was found between NSS and attentional deficit. Furthermore, index subjects with NSS were characterized by lower IQ scores, poorer performance on frontal lobe tests and greater problems with social interaction. There was also a trend for an association between male sex and both left-handedness and NSS.

¿Bajo las riendas del teléfono móvil? Control social, normalización y resistencia

Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. these mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. these processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. These mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno Latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. These processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.

Under the reins of mobile phone? Social control, normalization and resistance

Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. these mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. these processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. These mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno Latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. These processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.

Bajo las riendas del teléfono móvil

Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. these mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. these processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. These mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno Latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. These processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.

Sob as rédeas do telefone móvel? Controle social, normalização e resistência

Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. these mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. these processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.Mobile phones are an inclusive technology immersed in social network, whose associated practices participate forming the common subject. Nowadays, they are part of social control, normalization and resistance. These mechanisms have not been studied enough, and explaining them is the aim of this paper. Using concepts like power, tactics, strategies, and performativity, we will explain social control and then account for our aim. For gathering data, discussion groups were used and the analytical approach was thick description. Results indicate that mobile phones act as mediators, in a Bruno Latour sense. It means that in contacting someone those devices allow to happen, or not, different things, for instance, they modify their original intended functions by redefining relationships, and, in turn, favoring normalization, social control, and resistance. These processes produce a mutual reaction: the operation of power feeds resistance, and vice versa.

Teletrabajo y regímenes de compromiso: Mujeres y crítica del modelo laboral presencial

Nuestro articulo presenta una investigacion con mujeres que teletrabajan en la que se analizan sus explicaciones sobre su actividad laboral. Este analisis recurre a la nocion de regimen pragmatico de compromiso elaborada por Luc Boltanski y Lauren Thevenot. Tal concepto alude a los mecanismos comunes que despliegan los actores sociales en publico para capturar acontecimientos, personas y objetos en una misma trama de inteligibilidad. Esta se compone de tres ejes: a) la relacion con el mundo material; b) las habilidades y capacidades del actor que aparecen en la anterior relacion; c) un eje moral. La investigacion muestra que las teletrabajadoras elaboran un regimen pragmatico de compromiso que presenta una critica directa contra el modelo laboral presencial de nuestras organizaciones.

¿A qué llamamos ficciones? Ciencias sociales y ciencia ficción (Charla realizada en la UAB, abril 2004)

Introducción a la charla: “¿A qué llamamos ficciones?: ciencias sociales y ciencia ficción” que los autores organizaron en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona en Abril de 2004 donde estaban presentes: Alejo Cuervo (editor de la revista de ciencia ficción Gigamesh), Helena Torres & Desiré Rodrigo (Estudiosas del cyberfeminismo), Francisco Tirado (profesor UAB), Martin Mora (profesor Universidad de Guadalajara [México]) y varios colegas (alumnos y profesores) que compusieron la riqueza de la discusión final. Preliminary notes on: What do we call fictions? Social science and science fiction. A conference held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on April 2004 by Alejo Cuervo (Gigamesh science fiction paper editor), Helena Torres & Desiré Rodrigo (Cyberfeminism researchers), Francisco Tirado (UAB lecturer), Martín Mora (Universidad de Guadalajara [Mexico], lecturer) and many other Ph.D students and lecturers that were of great help during the act.

George Herbert Mead y la psicología social de los objetos

From several social sciences disciplines, for more than ten years, we are claiming about the necessity of a material semiology. Reality is eminently symbolic, but that feature is not only exclusive of textual and discursive realms. It has to do with objects and things, as well. How can we interpret objects and things? How can we manage those? What is actually their meaning? What is the relationship that links that meaning with the social? The answers will come along from the material culture proposals. But the elaboration of this one demands the revision of the G.H.Meads proposals. Four topics from George Herbert Meads broad and varied treatment of the physical object have been selected for examination: the function of objects in the definition of the bodily self and its environment; the phenomena of resistance and interiorization in the selfs contact with physical objects; the selfs identification with the world of physical object and the perceptual and manipulatory phases of the act. This paper reviews all these questions. And we will conclude that they constitute the first steps to outline a Social Psychology of the objects.Hace mas de una decada que diversas disciplinas de las ciencias sociales vindican la necesidad de una semiologia de lo material. Sin duda, la realidad social es eminentemente simbolica, pero tal simbolismo no se cine exclusivamente a lo textual, discursivo o linguistico. Existen practicas mas alla de esta dimension que producen sentido y significado. Los objetos y las cosas estan implicados en ellas. ?Que elementos definen semejante semiologia? ?Como hay que interpretar esas practicas? ?Como se relacionan con la produccion de lo social? Las respuestas vienen de la mano de la formulacion de una cultura material. Mas la elaboracion de esta exige la revision de las propuestas que al respecto realizo G.H.Mead. Efectivamente, en su obra es posible encontrar una explicacion para el papel que los objetos juegan en la constitucion y mantenimiento de identidades sociales, entender como confieren al self un ambiente estable y familiar, examinar como los actos de tocar y comprender, en tanto que relacion basica con lo material, detentan un papel clave en la construccion y mantenimiento de la realidad, y, en definitiva, observar como la relacion del self con el mundo fisico se configura como relacion social. En el presente trabajo revisaremos todas estas cuestiones. Y concluiremos que constituyen los primeros pasos para esbozar una Psicologia Social de los objetos