Revista Internacional De Sociologia 

Abstract: Based on a review of the main analytical approaches found in the literature, in this paper we establish a multidimensional and behaviour-oriented definition of environmental consciousness. We propose a method to operationalize this definition with the final aim of obtaining summary measures (or indexes) of this phenomenon which can be applied to different social contexts and time periods. The data obtained from a survey on environmental attitudes and behaviour conducted in 2004 among Andalusians (Ecobarometro de Andalucia 2004) is used as an empirical basis for the proposed operationalization. The resulting measures are then employed to identify social groups according to the diverse forms of their environmental consciousness and to explore their basic socio-demographic profiles

Abstract: The study of the Spanish population sport behaviour from the beginning of the democratic transition until de middle of the first decade of the XXI century, relies on a strong theoretical and empirical basis, six national social surveys that cover the 2005-1990 period. All the six sport social surveys have the same sponsorship, the Sport Council (CSD), the same Institute of Social Research (CIS), and the same author, the one that has prepared the present article. The longitudinal analysis of the main results allows to frame, both theoretically and empirically, the advance of the posmodernization processes in the Spanish sport social system as well as in the sport behaviour of the Spanish population.

Abstract: El colectivo de personas con discapacidad en Espana ha propuesto el concepto de “diversidad funcional” para reivindicar su derecho a tomar decisiones y a abandonar la marginacion a la que tradicionalmente ha sido sometido. El concepto se inscribe en los presupuestos de la “filosofia de vida independiente” y trata de superar las definiciones en negativo (discapacidad, minusvalia), reclamando el derecho al pleno reconocimiento de su dignidad como una expresion mas de las muchas diversidades que en la actualidad son reconocidas positivamente en nuestra convivencia colectiva. Sin embargo, el concepto no logra superar, por si mismo, ciertos presupuestos asociados a la concepcion de la discapacidad que tienen que ver con la moderna normalizacion del cuerpo y de la salud derivados de la hegemonia del discurso de la ciencia medica. En el texto se proponen las lineas de argumentacion critica que, frente a dichos presupuestos, habra de afrontar la perspectiva de la diversidad funcional.