An analysis of the customs, habits and cultural demands of university students requires the planning and execution of fieldwork, the cornerstone of any sociological study.
To this end, a questionnaire was developed by adapting a previous instrument (Customs, habits and cultural demands of Andalusian university students 2006) to the present social and cultural consumption context, in particular through the inclusion of the use of new media and devices in the consumption of cultural activities.
Once corrected, validated and adapted to…

The vast scale of the geographical and educational context involved in this study, namely Spain, Portugal, Latin America and the Caribbean rendered it necessary to select a sample of forty universities from twenty countries.  Selection was based on the principle of including as diverse and representative a spectrum as possible.
The study was also hampered by the lack of consensus and agreement about the definition of the concept of university social responsibility, attributable to its still recent emergence in higher education strate…

This report describes the results of a pilot study preceding the implementation of a major project to be carried out next year (academic year 2013).

The general objectives of the study were to generate knowledge and formulate theories regarding the potential contributions of Information and Communication Technologies in educational environments. A further aim was to encourage the admission, integration and retention of students embarking on university studies.

In order to determine the research methodologies currently i…

In the last decade, the development of information and communication technologies has created new conditions for the generation of value in the economy and in the exchange between companies and their customers.

Due to the type of product sold and the context in which it operates, the field of culture may encounter many advantages to incorporating this new approach.

This constitutes a natural evolution of the discipline towards a new "networking scenario", in which relationship marketing theories have assumed a…

While the parents, a sister of ten or eleven years old and another somewhat younger brother rummaged efficiently through the rubbish, the youngest of the family had found a book among the refuse and was sitting on the curb engrossed in reading - or perhaps simply gazing, because she might have been too young to know how to read.
 
This is not a facile appeal; this I witnessed, and there were no narrative additions of a harsh winter or a marginalised neighbourhood, because it happened in the middle of a big city, and the fact t…

The aim of the reflections presented in this article is to provide a basic starting point from which to assess the work which has been carried out by Andalusian public universities in the field of University Social Responsibility (USR).

Beginning with a definition of the concepts that we use today almost colloquially (university outreach, university social responsibility and knowledge transfer), we present a description of the work which has been carried out by the various Vice-Chancellor's offices/units/services responsible, …