https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso <p><em><a href="https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso">Science and Society</a></em> is a biannual journal. Its issues are published in April and September of each year. Edited and sponsored by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC). The publication emerged in 1975; and in June 2017 migrated all its archives and became an online magazine. It is a medium with a clear inter- and multi-transdisciplinary vocation, which collects the scientific production of INTEC, as well as of the academic institutions of the Dominican Republic, Latin America and the Caribbean, in addition to research work on this region of the world generated in other academic spaces.</p> <p><em><a href="https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso">Science and Society</a></em> focuses on the social sciences and the humanities; so, its thematic lines value the inputs from the communication sciences, archeology and ethnography, political science and public policies, multidisciplinary links between science, technology, society and the environment, gender studies, history, and Latin American and Caribbean literature, governance, sociology, cultural studies, linguistics, philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, social psychology, visual arts and other topics within the field of social sciences and humanities. <a href="https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/about">Read more...</a></p> es-ES <p><em>Science and Society is a journal of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) and is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"> Creative Commons:</a> Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).</em></p> cienciaysociedad@intec.edu.do (Dr. Jorge Ulloa Hung) revistas.academicas@intec.edu.do (Soporte Técnico) Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:08:05 +0000 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3583 Jorge Ulloa Hung Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3583 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3543 The processes of production, marketing, acquisition and consumption of food are correlated with beneficial or harmful socio-environmental impacts. The agri-food industry, from the knowledge of the socio-environmental damage that its productivism and consumerist practices generate, permanently seeks to expand its scope; in response to this, the social movement for food sovereignty opposes it through concrete actions based on socio-environmental reciprocity. Objective: to argue the contributions of degrowth in agrifood chains as a contribution to food sovereignty, through the integration of contributions from suppliers of a local, agroecological and fair-trade alternative market. Methodology: it is qualitative research, implemented in two phases: 1) application of a semi-structured interview to eight suppliers of the Ahimsa Agroecological Fair Trade Market (AAFTM); in Toluca, Mexico; from November 2021 to March 2022; 2) development of a reciprocal training cycle between the university and suppliers of AAFTM, with a monthly session in October and November 2022, and January and February 2023. Results: the projects are implementing practices in their agrifood chains that are in line with degrowth. Conclusions: the degrowth represents an affordable way to rethink, reevaluate and reorient processes in agrifood chains in order to scale up food sovereignty. Edwin Gabriel Garduño De Jesús, Sergio Moctezuma Pérez Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3543 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3514 This article examines peasant agriculture in the municipality of Monte Plata, Dominican Republic, in the context of agrarian capitalism and sectorial policy in the territory. It presents partial results from a broader study that included 121 interviews in twelve rural communities. Of these, 50 agricultural producers surveyed using structured questionnaires and 21 in-depth interviews and life histories with producers, technicians, and community leaders are analyzed here. The research combines a historical-structural approach with elements of neopositivist empiricism and adopts a mixed methodological design, descriptive-correlational in type. Quantitative data collection techniques (structured questionnaires) and qualitative ones (semi-structured interviews and life histories) were employed, applied through purposive sampling in rural communities of the municipality, without the intention of statistical inference. Based on the analysis of secondary data, it is estimated that more than 90% of the agricultural area is concentrated in a few capitalist and precapitalist latifundia (livestock and African palm), along with large and medium-sized farms operated by absentee producers. Residents are left with marginal lands, where micro-farms predominate that do not guarantee family reproduction, driving processes of pauperization, migration, and proletarianization. Three quarters of the surveyed holdings are 80 tareas (5 ha) or smaller, and one quarter do not exceed 8 tareas (0.5 ha). A growing differentiation between small livestock and crop producers is also observed, a product of commercialization and wage labor. Finally, policy guidelines aimed at an integral agrarian reform are proposed within the context of inclusive and sustainable rural territorial development. Nelson Osvaldo De Los Santos Polanco, Ramón Sánchez Noda Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3514 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3527 From a theoretical framework based in political ecology, this study analyzes the limitations of socio-environmental sustainability and ecological-distributive conflicts in the Galápagos Island with an emphasis on Santa Cruz Island and its transition zone of the Biosphere Reserve. The specific objetives were to explore how various local actors value the natural resources, and how they perceive the causes of environmental degradation and their perspective of sustainability. From the alternatives to development and degrowth, some practices of the agroforestry producers in the rural area and their contribution to sustainability were analyzed. A qualitative methodology was implemented, incorporating ethnography, participant observation, and in-depth interviews with agroforestry producers, as well as semi-structured interviews with institutional actors. The results indicate seriuos limitations in the access to basic sanitation and high negative environmental burdens of waste derived from intensive tourism. In the rural areas, the dominant perception and values points to the invasive species as the main cause of degradation, the same ones for institutions lacking any value whatsoever which has normalized the use of pesticides and agrochemicals and generates ecological distribution conflicts. Despite the dominant scenario, there are local practices among agroforestry producers based on community and self-management principles, proposing alternative ways of inhabiting and relating to nature, as ecological and well-being-centered alternatives. These practices should be strengthen sustainability and socio-environmental justice if they are integrated into environmental management and policy frameworks. Sophia Cristina Loayza Cabezas Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3527 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3533 Shortly after Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbean islands, he faced a completely unfamiliar reality. According to the logbook entries, everything was different from what had been previously known: contrasting climates, unexplored flora, and species alien to European everyday life. In connection with the colonization of Jamaica, the animals transported beginning in 1493 contributed to the development of a food system initially marked by the need for survival and, later, by everyday life, a situation that would be replicated throughout the Caribbean. Under these circumstances, the founding of villages was crucial, from which the process of adaptation, reproduction, and later exploitation of the fauna on the island of Jamaica began. In some cases, these villages served as points for establishing livestock farms, with the aim of consolidating the foundations for occupation and a self-sufficient economy. Specifically, the objective of this document is to highlight the usefulness and contributions that emerged from the Iberian Peninsula, La Gomera, and Gran Canaria, beginning in October 1493, regarding the animals included in the voyage, which constituted the genesis of the colonization of the Greater Antilles. This research presents an approach that combines the analysis of historical sources with archaeological references, with the aim of identifying live animals and their derivatives that were part of the colonization process on the island of Jamaica. This approach also seeks to locate potential livestock farms that were established, with the goal of identifying the production centers that supported these expansion processes. To this end, understanding the role of fauna and its products in the dynamics of colonization, with an emphasis on their influence on nutrition, ecological adaptation, and the colonial economy, is crucial. Enrique Gómez Velázquez Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3533 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3462 This essay offers a philosophical reflection on how to investigate motherhood in women with disabilities from a critical and transformative approach. Drawing on a review of concepts such as dignity, otherness, and epistemic injustice, it analyzes the limits that have historically conditioned their exclusion as moral and reproductive subjects within academic discourse. In response, reproductive justice is proposed as an analytical framework that articulates material, symbolic, and political conditions, allowing for a critique of both biomedical approaches and the omissions of hegemonic feminism. With the aim of contributing to the strengthening of academic production in this field, the essay finally addresses the philosophical and methodological implications of adopting this framework in research on motherhood and disability, emphasizing the need to recognize situated knowledges, reconsider the aims of research, and actively challenge dominant interpretive frameworks. Alba I. Polanco Vidal Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3462 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3544 The aim of this research was to understand the social representations, prejudices, and attitudes of adolescent students toward HIV in a public school in Medellín. Methodologically, the study was guided by a hermeneutic paradigm and a qualitative approach, employing a case study design within an educational institution. Data were collected through interactive techniques. The main findings reveal the persistence of erroneous social representations about HIV, largely supported by myths and unfounded beliefs—mainly associated with sexual practices, physical contact, and irrational ideas about the virus's origin and modes of transmission. Although some participants demonstrated basic knowledge about HIV transmission, this understanding was often intertwined with negative stereotypes, emotions such as fear, and discriminatory attitudes. The study also revealed a low perception of risk and limited awareness regarding self-care practices and condom use, which increases the vulnerability of this population. It is concluded that lack of knowledge and stigmatized information about the diagnosis are key factors contributing to the reproduction of discriminatory social attitudes toward people living with HIV. Therefore, it is essential to strengthen prevention and education programs that go beyond promoting condom use, aiming instead to provide adolescents with accurate and comprehensive knowledge about HIV. John Edison Peralta Castro, Luz Yormary Rua Rendón, Yeny Caterine Palacio Patiño, Yurany Zuluaga García, Yusty Carolina Restrepo Segura Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3544 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3459 Religious beliefs can influence how people perceive reality and make decisions, potentially contributing to the emergence of cognitive biases or distortions and, consequently, affecting memory. The literature linking cognitive biases, memory, and religious beliefs is limited, often focusing on specific biases and their influence on two of these variables. Addressing this gap, the present study aimed to investigate the correlation between these variables in Dominican adults. A virtual form was administered to a sample of 129 participants, utilizing the Colombian version of the Belief System Inventory (SBI-14-Col), the Spanish version of the Davos Assessment of Cognitive Biases Scale (DACOBS), and the Self-Monitoring Scale for Memory Systems (SMSQ). A correlational analysis was done, and its results revealed a positive correlation between religious beliefs and memory, indicating that stronger religious beliefs may be associated with enhanced memory. Moreover, religious beliefs were also linked to a higher tendency toward the jumping-to-conclusions bias, which, in turn, was associated with an elevated subjective assessment of memory. These findings should be interpreted with caution, given that the non-probabilistic sampling, the religious and cultural homogeneity of the sample, as well as the low reliability observed in some subscales, may have influenced the strength of the observed associations. The aim is to expand the existing knowledge in previous literature and encourage future research with a larger and more diverse sample in terms of culture and religious beliefs, using instruments and experimental designs tailored to the characteristics of the participant population. Laura C. Henríquez Goico, Laura N. Marine Genao, Lia C. Then Rodríguez, Hugo M. Marte-Santana Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3459 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3420 This document analyzes the impact of the implementation of the Public Works Concessions Law (COP) on Chile’s economic growth, using the synthetic control method to construct a counterfactual representing the performance of GDP per capita in the absence of the intervention. Based on GDP per capita data from Chile and seven selected Latin American countries for the period 1980-1993, a synthetic model was developed that minimizes pre-intervention differences. The results indicate that, following the implementation of the policies in 1994, Chile’s GDP per capita began to significantly diverge from the synthetic counterfactual, particularly from 2002 onwards, suggesting a significant positive impact of the PPPs1 policies on the country’s economic growth. Sergio Alejandro Hinojosa, Eduardo Arturo Koffman Jopia Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3420 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3540 Carlos Enrique Cabrera Copyright (c) 2025 Science and Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es https://revistas.intec.edu.do/index.php/ciso/article/view/3540 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000