"Vicente Romano (1935-2014), Doctorate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and Doctor of Social Communication cum laude from the University of Münster (Germany). United States, Canada, Brazil and Spain.He was a full professor in the Department of Sociology IV of the Complutense University of Madrid and professor of Communication at the University of Seville, where he retired in 2005. He directed in his last years the section of economy and culture Of the Marxist Research Foundation (FIM), linked to the PCE, author of fifteen books in solitary and eleven in collaboration, as well as thirteen chapters of collective works, twenty prologues and introductions, one hundred and thirty articles in Spanish and foreign magazines, along with more Of a hundred lectures and presentations at national and international congresses and seminars. His work The formation of the submissive mentality reached great popularity. Ten editions have been made in Spain and Latin America, in addition to being translated into Italian and Portuguese. It also has works published in English and German. His extensive personal output is supplemented by his translations of some of the most outstanding contemporary scientists and thinkers. He carried out an extensive work dedicated to analyzing the relationship between culture, communication and consciousness from sociology, education, social representations and functions, development or interculturality, to the use made of time and space for peers and The natural and collective environment.