Category Archives: Doctoral thesis

Employment in the care sector in Spain (2013)

The thesis studies the concept of care through perspectives of sociology of work and gender. It aims at analysing the employment in the care sector in order to explain the causes of the care work precariousness in Spain. In other

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Homophily as a way of structuring social relations in Catalonia (2013)

How do we establish the relationships with the people who surround us? Who are those who are part of our network and how have they come to be? What characteristics do we share with them? These simple questions contain a

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The Twofold Presence. Work and female employment in contemporary societies (2009)

The thesis shows the feasibility of the concept of Twofold Presence as suitable theoretical tool to study the complexity of the work and the work of women. Complexity, first, because in relation to work (productive and reproductive work), are formed

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New model of social stratification and new instrument for measurement. The Argentine case (2009)

Our society has experienced significant changes in relation to those described by the classic sociologists. We can think on the more general changes produced by globalization and technological advances or in those that are more concrete and that we experience

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The content of the translator jobs. The case of internal translators for translation companies in Barcelona (2010)

Our doctoral thesis is located within the field of translation studies, and also incorporates conceptual elements of the sociology of work and business organisation. It deals with work content and its various components, in internal positions in translation companies. In

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The hidden face of the hypermarket . Consent and labour resistance of the proletarians of a hypermarket (2010)

This PhD thesis analyses proletarians’ labour consent and resistance at a Spanish hypermarket. Concretely, the thesis is a case study about consent, resistance, legitimation and disagreement that proletarians from a hypermarket develop when faced with the hypermarket’s enterprise regime on

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The Frontiers of Social Welfare : a view from the Social State of Law (2010)

This doctoral thesis intends to appraise Venezuela’s model of legal labor protection. The initial construction of the model and its redefinitions in 1990 and in 2008 were analyzed with that purpose.   Author: Richter Duprat, Jacqueline Director: Torns, Teresa;  Recio,

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The essence of style in fashion: the social class (2010)

Author: Jiménez Gómez, Juan Director: Vicent Borràs Date: 22/09/2010

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The employment, the family and the life-time articulation of high school teachers . A comparison France / Spain (2010)

Author: Jarty, Julie Director: Teresa Torns; N. Le Feuvre Date: 10/12/2010

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Personal networks, associationism and social integration of immigrants: a mixed methods approach (2014)

The overarching research objective of this thesis is to study the social integration process of the Ecuadorean and Moroccan migrant population in Catalonia. It focuses specifically on the role of associative participation in this process, analysing it from a relational

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