Contemporary theoretical and political approaches have sought to integrate both a material politics of redistribution and a cultural politics of recognition into a relational theoretical framework. Such frameworks consider the intersecting ways individuals and groups suffer from over-determining social inequalities that are rooted in the economic, cultural and political orders of society. In this thesis, I identify approaches that seek to explain the intersection between economic, cultural, and political variables as “integrated” theories of justice. At the forefront of integrated approaches that have cut across disciplinary and epistemological divides, I critically engage with Nancy Fraser’s integrated theory of justice (1995, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005). I also examine similar, yet alternative approaches advanced by Jacinda Swanson (2005) and others that have attempted to reconcile the economy/culture/politics relationship. I argue that while integrated theories of social justice provide a correction to previous “reductionist” and “essentializing” theories of social justice, they do not go far enough to capture the over-determining interconnections between economics, politics, culture, and agency. As a result, they are unable to adequately address the complexity of social inequalities. To address this problem in the literature, I re-work integrated theories of social justice that attempt to reconcile the economy/culture/politics divide through an integration with a realist meta-theoretical approach. A realist approach offers several theoretical, methodological and political gains for recasting complex theories of social justice.

This thesis focuses on the structural and behavioural factors that placed South Asian immigrant women living with HIV/AIDS in the Greater Toronto Area at risk. Informed by Connell's social theory of gender (1987), this study examined the role of hegemonic masculinity in legitimizing male power and contributing to the HIV risk of these women. By conducting one-on-one interviews with 12 HIV-positive immigrant women, meaningful constructions of the women's narratives and accounts of their experiences relative to HIV were created. This study examined the intersection of power ideologies such as gender, race and class in specific contexts as they generated particular experiences that affected women's risk for HIV. Following a community-based research approach, a collaborative relationship was established with the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention where qualitative methods of analysis and an inductive approach with an iterative process were followed. Factors such as isolation, economic dependence on their husbands, discrimination, racism, investment in psychologically and emotionally abusive relationships, combined with the absence of support from their family of origin exacerbated the women's risk of HIV infection. The strong ties exhibited by most of the women to their religious/ethnic communities helped sustain a gender-based social hierarchy. To facilitate dialogue and social change for South Asian women, gender and culture need to be situated in social and historical contexts. As such, programs should be understood within a larger critical understanding of the social power relations and history of Canadian immigration patterns. Using anti-racist frameworks, initiatives should address violence against women, while tackling interrelated issues (i.e., housing, poverty, etc.). This work draws attention to oppressions through the experiences of a community of women who are rarely given a voice within the context of research on HIV/AIDS. It will be also helpful for Ontario’s HIV prevention strategy and the field of women's sexual health.

This thesis focuses on the structural and behavioural factors that placed South Asian immigrant women living with HIV/AIDS in the Greater Toronto Area at risk. Informed by Connell's social theory of gender (1987), this study examined the role of hegemonic masculinity in legitimizing male power and contributing to the HIV risk of these women. By conducting one-on-one interviews with 12 HIV-positive immigrant women, meaningful constructions of the women's narratives and accounts of their experiences relative to HIV were created. This study examined the intersection of power ideologies such as gender, race and class in specific contexts as they generated particular experiences that affected women's risk for HIV. Following a community-based research approach, a collaborative relationship was established with the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention where qualitative methods of analysis and an inductive approach with an iterative process were followed. Factors such as isolation, economic dependence on their husbands, discrimination, racism, investment in psychologically and emotionally abusive relationships, combined with the absence of support from their family of origin exacerbated the women's risk of HIV infection. The strong ties exhibited by most of the women to their religious/ethnic communities helped sustain a gender-based social hierarchy. To facilitate dialogue and social change for South Asian women, gender and culture need to be situated in social and historical contexts. As such, programs should be understood within a larger critical understanding of the social power relations and history of Canadian immigration patterns. Using anti-racist frameworks, initiatives should address violence against women, while tackling interrelated issues (i.e., housing, poverty, etc.). This work draws attention to oppressions through the experiences of a community of women who are rarely given a voice within the context of research on HIV/AIDS. It will be also helpful for Ontario’s HIV prevention strategy and the field of women's sexual health.

Contemporary theoretical and political approaches have sought to integrate both a material politics of redistribution and a cultural politics of recognition into a relational theoretical framework. Such frameworks consider the intersecting ways individuals and groups suffer from over-determining social inequalities that are rooted in the economic, cultural and political orders of society. In this thesis, I identify approaches that seek to explain the intersection between economic, cultural, and political variables as “integrated” theories of justice. At the forefront of integrated approaches that have cut across disciplinary and epistemological divides, I critically engage with Nancy Fraser’s integrated theory of justice (1995, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005). I also examine similar, yet alternative approaches advanced by Jacinda Swanson (2005) and others that have attempted to reconcile the economy/culture/politics relationship. I argue that while integrated theories of social justice provide a correction to previous “reductionist” and “essentializing” theories of social justice, they do not go far enough to capture the over-determining interconnections between economics, politics, culture, and agency. As a result, they are unable to adequately address the complexity of social inequalities. To address this problem in the literature, I re-work integrated theories of social justice that attempt to reconcile the economy/culture/politics divide through an integration with a realist meta-theoretical approach. A realist approach offers several theoretical, methodological and political gains for recasting complex theories of social justice.

FONTENELE, Lissa Mara Saraiva. O novo contexto da educação especial: uma pesquisa etnográfico-discursiva sobre identidades profissionais e maternas. 2014. 252f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza (CE), 2014 / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-06-09T14:18:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_lmsfontenele.pdf: 1977928 bytes, checksum: 68a96481267d20a39d6ac0c7b65e34cd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-06-09T14:47:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_lmsfontenele.pdf: 1977928 bytes, checksum: 68a96481267d20a39d6ac0c7b65e34cd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-09T14:47:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_tese_lmsfontenele.pdf: 1977928 bytes, checksum: 68a96481267d20a39d6ac0c7b65e34cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / The implementation of Specialized Educational Care (SEC) Centers by the Central government brought about changes in the multidisciplinary team practitioner identities, and reshaped maternal identities. Practitioners from diverse fields that used to provide treatment in isolation had to develop joint work. In this context, professional identities were rebuilt, influenced largely by the literacy practices of the various professional fields present in the centers. In relation to the mothers, they had to face the challenge of having to enroll their children in mainstream schools in order to continue to be entitled to the multidisciplinary team care. This was a source of great anxiety and insecurity, as they do not consider current mainstream schools as appropriate to their children. To research about identities, I adopted in this thesis the Social Theory of Literacy (BARTON and HAMILTON, 1998; BARTON, 2009), which considers literacy as a set of social practices that are directly related to existing values and beliefs in different communities and social groups who are thus closely related to the members’ identities. I also adopted Gee’s (2000 - 2001, 2003) theoretical and methodological proposal on identities in educational contexts. In addition, theoretical and methodological approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CHOULIARAKI; FAIRCLOUGH, 1999; FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) provides support for the study of identities with two categories, namely: Representational Meaning (Discourses) and Identificational Meaning (Styles). Through the reflexive ethnographic research, the data indicated the existence of power asymmetry in the relations among the practitioners originated, mostly, from the predominance of literacies related to the health area over the literacies in the educational area, which ultimately affect in a negative way the educational care. By taking into account the mother’s views and representations around literacy, it was possible to see how these aspects were important in the construction of their maternal identities in relation to their choices regarding the appropriate care to their children. / A implantação dos Centros de Atendimento Educacional Especializado (AEEs) pelo governo ocasionou mudanças nas identidades profissionais da equipe multiprofissional, e reconfigurou as identidades maternas. Os profissionais e as profissionais das diversas áreas que antes prestavam atendimento de forma isolada tiveram que desenvolver um trabalho conjunto. Nesse contexto, as identidades profissionais foram sendo reconstruídas e influenciadas, em grande parte, pelas práticas de letramento das diversas áreas profissionais presentes nos centros. Quanto às mães, viram diante de si o desafio de terem que matricular seus filhos e filhas na escola regular a fim de continuarem a ter direito aos atendimentos da equipe multidisciplinar. Isso foi fonte de grande ansiedade e insegurança, visto não considerarem o modelo da escola regular atual apropriado às suas crianças. Para pesquisar sobre identidades, adoto nesta tese a Teoria Social do Letramento (BARTON; HAMILTON, 1998; BARTON, 2009), que entende o letramento como um conjunto de práticas sociais que têm relação direta com valores e crenças existentes nas diversas comunidades e grupos sociais e que estão, assim, intimamente relacionadas às identidades das pessoas. Adoto também a proposta teórico/metodológica de Gee (2000 – 2001, 2003) de análise das identidades em contextos educacionais. Além disso, a abordagem teórico-metodológica da Análise de Discurso Crítica (CHOULIARAKI; FAIRCLOUGH, 1999; FAIRCLOUGH, 2003), fornece subsídios para o estudo das identidades a partir de duas categorias, a saber: o Significado Representacional (Discursos) e o Significado Identificacional (Estilos). Por meio da pesquisa etnográfica reflexiva, os dados indicam a existência de uma assimetria de poder nas relações entre os profissionais e as profissionais oriunda, em sua maioria, da predominância dos letramentos da área da saúde em detrimento aos letramentos relativos à área educacional, o que acaba por afetar, de forma negativa, os atendimentos. Ao considerar as concepções e representações das mães em torno do letramento, foi possível perceber como esses aspectos foram importantes na formação de suas identidades maternas no sentido de serem parâmetros que pautam suas escolhas em relação a que atendimentos são apropriados ou não para seus filhos e filhas.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Esta dissertação trata da construção sociológica do conceito de desenvolvimento, caracterizando-o como imaginário social, temporalidade explícita e auto-atribuída do socialhistórico (nos termos de Cornelius Castoriadis). Este imaginário é um conjunto entrelaçado de significações articuladas cosmologicamente e tributárias de uma teologia, mesmo em suas simbologias e concepções secularizadas. Essa cosmologia se sobrepõe a uma concepção de natureza humana distinta e a uma ontologia ocidental dualista. Neste quadro, o desenvolvimento aparece como conceito central da cosmologia ocidental e da ciência social, que orquestra essas significações no imaginário imprimindo a necessidade de uma ordenação de elementos com vistas a uma finalidade paramétrica ou valorativa, uma versão de teodicéia complementada por uma governamentalidade elementos formados pelo encontro da tradição bíblica com o pensamento grego. O desenvolvimento é a expressão paradigmática do imaginário social ocidental. Ao traçar suas características principais, explorando um pouco de suas origens, o conceito de desenvolvimento é reconstruído como um instrumento analítico para permitir a comparação entre as diversas concepções particulares e específicas de desenvolvimento encontradas no pensamento social e na política contemporânea. / This thesis is aimed at a sociological construction of the concept of development, characterizing it as a social imaginary, an explicit and self-attributing temporality of the social-historic (in Cornelius Castoriadis terms). This imaginary is an interlaced set of significations which are cosmologically articulated and theologically tributaries even in their secular conceptions and symbols. This cosmology is matched with both a distinct conception of human nature and a dualist, Western ontology. In this frame, development appears as the central concept of both Western cosmology and social science. It orchestrates significations in the imaginary and produces a necessity for the ordering of elements with a final aim, be it parametric or value-attributed. Development is a version of theodicy coupled with governmentality elements formed by the encounter of the biblical tradition and Greek thought. Development is the paradigmatic expression of Western social thought. By tracing its main characteristics and exploring some of its origins, the concept of development is reconstructed as an analytic tool that allows for the comparison between diverse conceptions of development in contemporary politics and social thought.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 TesePASV.pdf: 1940745 bytes, checksum: b230555594cd2f40916188740d8317f7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-01 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Mato Grosso (FAPEMAT) / This text aims to discuss the current policies concerning affirmative actions, especially the racial cotes, which in 2002 were implemented in Brazilian universities, above all in the public ones. After nearly one decade that the country has more than hundreds of institutions that have adopted these policies (with different emphasis and models), the controversy is not ended. The main controversy arises especially when these affirmative actions focus on aspects related to race in the models implemented in these educational institutions. This thesis is divided in three chapters. We have tried to develop a theoretical line approaching the current debate, which has been attempting to influence people and social groups, as well as politicians, either in favor or against the policies. The chapters are about relevant topics for this research: the construction of the nation and how science and social theories were important to create a society based on social hierarchy related to race. There is also a discussion about the reception of the racial cotes in a public university that applies racial criteria to select students for the graduation courses. Thus, the chapters try to understand how the process of racialization happened in Brazil and how this process was responsible for the creation of inflexible positions in terms of social status. This society is the same which is now discussing questions and themes that tend to appear against that stiff hierarchy. Therefore it is apparently clear that a paradox has been recently placed. The affirmative action‟s policies have always been supported, or at least not firmly criticized. On the other hand, when the same structure of the affirmative action‟s policies is used in favor of black people, it raises negative and opposite reactions. Making an effort to understand this reaction, we, first of all, have the hypothesis that the affirmative action‟s policies, mainly the racial cotes, allow us to establish at least two levels of comprehension: firstly, the emphasis in the process seeking equality; secondly, the proposal of a reflection about the difference – including the ethnic and racial ones. These two last have been one of the central elements of social inequality. Hence, our research challenges to show that the contemporary policies of affirmative action, mostly the racial cotes, cause a tension on the Brazilian social thought spotting other possibilities of interpretation for this society. Consequently, giving conceptual, theoretical and political strengths to the sociological category of race, it has allowed a new understanding for the social phenomenon in the country and a broader comprehension of what are the true elements involved whenever the racial cotes become one of the greatest symbols not only the public symbols not only the public higher education, but also the racial relation in Brazil in our time. / Este texto procura debater o tema das políticas contemporâneas de ação afirmativa destacando as cotas para negros implementadas em universidades brasileiras, sobretudo públicas, a partir de 2002. Após quase uma década e de o país contar com aproximadamente mais de uma centena de instituições que adotam políticas de ação afirmativa com diferentes recortes, ênfases e modelos a polêmica ainda se faz presente, particularmente quando estas políticas de ação afirmativa enfatizam aspectos e contornos étnicos e raciais nos modelos implementados nestas instituições de ensino superior. Esta pesquisa se estrutura em três capítulos que, embora possam ser lidos de maneira independente, foram construídos visando estabelecer um percurso teórico que tende a extrapolar certo viés presente no interior do debate que posiciona indivíduos e grupos sociais e políticos de maneira favorável ou contrária às políticas contemporâneas de ação afirmativa. Os capítulos se debruçam sobre alguns temas que se mostraram relevantes para a pesquisa: o tema da construção da nação e como ciência e teoria sociais foram importantes para a elaboração de uma arquitetura social baseada no erguimento de hierarquias sociais sustentadas por pertenças étnicas e raciais; sobre o debate mais recente e a recepção das cotas para negros nas universidades públicas; e sobre os impactos e as mudanças que já podem ser verificadas no interior de uma universidade que utiliza critérios raciais para o ingresso em seus cursos de graduação. Deste ponto de vista, os capítulos buscam compreender como se constituiu o processo de racialização da sociedade brasileira que impingiu à população negra rígidas posições na estrutura social desta mesma sociedade e que neste momento são tensionados pelas questões e temas que tendem a se insurgir contrariamente àquelas rígidas hierarquias construídas. Ao posicionar o debate sob este ângulo analítico chama a atenção um aparente paradoxo que se apresenta nos tempos atuais. Por um lado, as políticas de ação afirmativa em geral sempre contaram se não com irrestrito apoio, com um ambiente marcado pela ausência de críticas contundentes. Por outro, quando os mesmos mecanismos das políticas de ação afirmativa são acionados em prol dos povos indígenas e, sobretudo, da população negra surgem reações contrárias. Buscando compreender os fenômenos sociais que se manifestavam nessas reações, partiu-se da hipótese de trabalho que as políticas de ação afirmativa em sua dimensão mais polêmica, as cotas para negros, permitem estabelecer pelo menos dois níveis de compreensão. Em primeiro lugar, o que enfoca o processo de busca de igualdade. Em segundo lugar, o que propõe uma reflexão acerca da diferença, inclusive a étnica e a racial, que na hipótese levantada na pesquisa, tem sido um dos elementos centrais de estruturação da desigualdade social. Neste sentido, a pesquisa tende a demonstrar que as políticas contemporâneas de ação afirmativa, na modalidade cotas para negros, tencionam algumas matrizes interpretativas do pensamento social brasileiro apontando para possibilidades da superação de tais matrizes e a constituição de novas possibilidades de interpretação da sociedade brasileira. Portanto, atribuir densidade conceitual, teórica e política à categoria sociológica raça tem permitido a proposição de novas matrizes interpretativas dos fenômenos sociais da sociedade brasileira e, assim, possibilitado compreender de maneira mais ampliada quais são as várias facetas e o que está em jogo no momento em que as cotas para negros se tornam um dos maiores emblemas da educação pública de nível superior no Brasil contemporâneo.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AlysonTFF_DISSERT.pdf: 959955 bytes, checksum: c5638ac151a50a4a8bb8fcec37b70663 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-18 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / In this master s thesis I intend to carry out an interpretation of Michel Foucault s thought that points out the relations and theoretical, conceptual and thematic consequences with sociology in his work and theoretical propositions. For my argumentation and analysis I take as a base a specific part of his thought: the problem of domination in modern societies in the genealogic texts in the decade of 1970. It s about to identify how Foucault does his analysis of the relations of domination and the use of the power with the objective to suggest and point out his contribution to sociological analysis of domination. I will discuss the foucaultian program of the study of domination from four units of analysis: person constitution, knowledge, power and truth. The structure and division of the chapters will follow the specific and detailed study of each of those units of analysis, prioritizing their theoretical sense and consequences to the sociology. Thus, in the first chapter, I will highlight a little more the relations of affinity and the convergences between Foucault and the sociology in a way to offer more elements to justify the general objectives that this work intends to achieve. In the second chapter, I will analyze the subject of domination in Foucault s thought, discussing his basic presuppositions and its intrinsic relation with the heart of the foucaultian philosophical project, the person constitution. In turn, in the third and fourth chapter, I will discuss the interdependence between knowledge and power as an essential and opaque dimension of the ways of modern domination. In the fifth chapter, I will analyze the relation between domination and the truth discourse production / Nesta disserta??o, nos propomos a realizar uma leitura do pensamento de Michel Foucault que privilegie, em sua obra e esquema te?rico, as rela??es e implica??es te?ricas, conceituais e tem?ticas com a sociologia. Tomaremos como base para nossa argumenta??o e an?lise, um recorte espec?fico em seu pensamento: o problema da domina??o nas sociedades modernas nos escritos geneal?gicos da d?cada de 1970. Trata-se de identificar e examinar como Foucault constr?i suas an?lises das rela??es de sujei??o e exerc?cio do poder com a finalidade de sugerir e sublinhar as suas contribui??es para a an?lise sociol?gica da domina??o. Exploraremos o programa de investiga??o da domina??o foucaultiano a partir de quatro unidades de an?lise: constitui??o do sujeito, saber, poder e verdade. A estrutura e divis?o dos cap?tulos seguir? o tratamento espec?fico e detalhado de cada uma dessas unidades de an?lise, priorizando os seus nexos te?ricos e implica??es para a sociologia. Com isso, a domina??o, no pensamento de Foucault, ? definida nos termos das principais pressuposi??es te?rico-metodol?gicas da anal?tica do poder, da rela??o intr?nseca com o cerne do projeto filos?fico foucaultiano - a constitui??o do sujeito -, da interdepend?ncia entre saber e poder enquanto dimens?o essencial e opaca das formas de domina??o moderna e, por ?ltimo, do v?nculo entre domina??o e produ??o de discursos de verdade

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Esta dissertação trata da construção sociológica do conceito de desenvolvimento, caracterizando-o como imaginário social, temporalidade explícita e auto-atribuída do socialhistórico (nos termos de Cornelius Castoriadis). Este imaginário é um conjunto entrelaçado de significações articuladas cosmologicamente e tributárias de uma teologia, mesmo em suas simbologias e concepções secularizadas. Essa cosmologia se sobrepõe a uma concepção de natureza humana distinta e a uma ontologia ocidental dualista. Neste quadro, o desenvolvimento aparece como conceito central da cosmologia ocidental e da ciência social, que orquestra essas significações no imaginário imprimindo a necessidade de uma ordenação de elementos com vistas a uma finalidade paramétrica ou valorativa, uma versão de teodicéia complementada por uma governamentalidade elementos formados pelo encontro da tradição bíblica com o pensamento grego. O desenvolvimento é a expressão paradigmática do imaginário social ocidental. Ao traçar suas características principais, explorando um pouco de suas origens, o conceito de desenvolvimento é reconstruído como um instrumento analítico para permitir a comparação entre as diversas concepções particulares e específicas de desenvolvimento encontradas no pensamento social e na política contemporânea. / This thesis is aimed at a sociological construction of the concept of development, characterizing it as a social imaginary, an explicit and self-attributing temporality of the social-historic (in Cornelius Castoriadis terms). This imaginary is an interlaced set of significations which are cosmologically articulated and theologically tributaries even in their secular conceptions and symbols. This cosmology is matched with both a distinct conception of human nature and a dualist, Western ontology. In this frame, development appears as the central concept of both Western cosmology and social science. It orchestrates significations in the imaginary and produces a necessity for the ordering of elements with a final aim, be it parametric or value-attributed. Development is a version of theodicy coupled with governmentality elements formed by the encounter of the biblical tradition and Greek thought. Development is the paradigmatic expression of Western social thought. By tracing its main characteristics and exploring some of its origins, the concept of development is reconstructed as an analytic tool that allows for the comparison between diverse conceptions of development in contemporary politics and social thought.

O debate sobre redistribuição e reconhecimento tem como principais referências os trabalhos de Nancy Fraser e Axel Honneth, bem como o livro Redistribuição ou Reconhecimento? Uma controvérsia político-filosófica, obra que reúne contribuições de ambos. Cada um destes autores atribui, contudo, um diferente significado a esses dois conceitos que são também mobilizados por eles de modos distintos. Com o objetivo de explorar esse debate no interior e a partir da controvérsia Fraser-Honneth, abordaremos a compreensão que os dois possuem sobre as relações entre redistribuição e reconhecimento, em seus diferentes níveis de análise. Tomando como fio condutor a pergunta acerca da possibilidade de que o conjunto de injustiças existentes seja compreendido a partir do conceito de reconhecimento, ou acerca da necessidade de recorrer para isso ao par conceitual redistribuição e reconhecimento, pretendemos mostrar que por mais importantes que sejam as questões relativas à base normativa de suas teorias, à importância e ao caráter que atribuem aos conflitos sociais a disputa entre o monismo proposto por Honneth e o dualismo defendido por Fraser tem em seu centro questões sobre teoria social, por meio das quais procuram compreender as relações entre a economia e a cultura e apresentar teorias do poder aptas a diagnosticar as injustiças ou patologias sociais existentes. Injustiças que, segundo eles, precisam ser analisadas também no interior das interações sociais, que estariam perpassadas por relações de poder. / The debate about redistribution and recognition has as its central theoretical references, Nancy Frasers and Axel Honneths work and, mainly, the book Redistribution or Recognition? A political-philosophical exchange, a work that gathers contributions from both of them. Each of these authors ascribes, though, a different meaning to those two concepts that are, besides, mobilised by them in distinguished ways. With the aim to explore this debate within and from Fraser-Honneth controversy, we seek to discuss the comprehension that both authors sustain regarding the relations between redistribution and recognition, in its different levels of analysis. Establishing as our guiding line the question concerning the possibility that the set of existing injustices be comprehended only through the concept of recognition, or if to do so is necessary to call upon the conceptual par redistribution and recognition, we aim to pinpoint that although questions regarding the normative basis of their theories and the importance or character they assign to the social conflicts might be of fundamental importance the dispute between the monism endorsed by Honneth and the dualism advocated by Fraser has its center the different social theories developed by those authors, through which they seek to understand the relations between culture and economy and to bring foreword theories of power that can diagnose the existent social pathologies or injustices. Injustices that, according to them, need to be properly analysed within social interactions, also pervaded by power relations.