Tertiary Sector in Spain: Activities and Organization

The Tertiary Sector

People have needs to be covered, such as leisure, safety, and health. The tertiary sector provides these services.

The Tertiary Sector Today

Over the past years, there has been a remarkable growth of the tertiary sector, because there are a greater number of employees in this sector. The weight of the tertiary sector in a country’s economy is considered an indicator of its economic and social development. In many countries, increased needs for services by the people have led to

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Community & Social Work: Organizational Intervention Levels

Community Work and Social Work

There are important ambiguities in this respect:

  1. Social Work views Community Work as one of its three traditional methods of intervention. For Social Work cases, the Social Work and Community Work Group would be the methodological triad around which to build the professional exercise. Compared to the first two methods, which addressed the treatment of personal social situations, community work addresses collective social situations.
  2. We note the existence of a common repertoire.
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Semantic Relationships: Meaning in Language

Denotation and Connotation

Denotation is the objective meaning of a word, while connotation is the meaning developed over time. Connotations can be cultural and/or subjective.

Meaning and Sense

The meaning of a word is determined by the linguistic context and the communicative situation.

Context and Situation

The linguistic context of a word is affected by the following factors:

  • The set of words that surround the discourse.
  • The syntactic relationship that links the terms of a statement.
  • The relationship
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Bizkaia Miners’ Struggle & 1890 Strike

Bizkaia Miners’ Struggle and the 1890 Strike

Source Text Analysis (1896)

Type: Primary source. Regarding the form: article/propaganda text + narrative. Content: Socio-political text.

Author: Socialists, published in their bulletin “La Lucha de Clases” (The Class Struggle) by socialist committees of Bilbao, Gallarta, and La Arboleda (inspired by Facundo Perezagua).

Addressed to: Workers of Bizkaia (miners), but also the Government. Public text.

Objective: To denounce the working conditions of miners and

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Understanding Nation, State, and Rule of Law in Peru

Nation and State: Key Concepts

Nation: A group of people united by material and spiritual ties (shared culture, ethnicity, or religion). It evolves into a political society to establish an organization (laws and authorities) with common goals. Most nations have achieved this through state organization.

State: A politically organized group of people within a defined territory, united under a single authority and common goals that bind them together.

Elements of the State: Territory, rule of law, sovereignty,

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Understanding Human Societies: Culture, Behavior, and Change

Social Anthropology: The Study of Humanity

Social anthropology is the science that focuses on the study of human beings, dealing with how people live in society, their language, culture, and customs.

Harris’s work focuses on investigating the different lifestyles of non-Western cultures, examining the influence of modernization. He objectively analyzes real-world phenomena, attempting to solve puzzles and explain seemingly inexplicable phenomena. Fieldwork helps Harris describe and explain these phenomena,

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