Sistema Regional de Información
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The temple of San Hipolito, in Mexico City, is a sacred space that has been stigmatized as a meeting place for young addicts and delinquents devoted to San Judas Tadeo (sanjuderos), who come every 28th of the month, the day they celebrate to the saint in the City. To break the stigma, this article aims to show the different profiles of the devotees and their forms of patial appropriation. Through a geographical perspective and an ethnographic approach, with a methodical assistance every 28th of the month, the present work finds that, to this temple go from children to women and men of the third age; housewives, workers, informal merchants, union members, students of popular classes and settlers; as well as migrants (indigenous and mestizo). In this way,  through the urban popular cult to San Judas Tadeo in the temple of San Hipolito, the marginalized sectors of the city and itsperiphery can become visible, they take over this  space every 28th of the month, they make it a devotional space, while of festive funtion  and political enunciation. It is part of a third appropriation in the history of the temple, in  logic of resemantization.

This article evidences that local productive system in Atlantic/Caribbean region in CostaRica, based on banana and pineapple plantations for export, is responsible of severe damage to nature and could not resolve social problems like poverty. This conclusion is based on analysis of numerous scientific and technical literatures about environmental and social effects of productive activities in Atlantic/Caribbean region, between 1990 and 2015. This situation contradicts the objectives of Sustainable Development model established inCosta Rica, aimed at protection of nature and resolving needs of people.

The socio-labor guidance services are a great support for the job-professional insertion of the job seekers. This research explores about the assessment that the different  elements that make up the good practices of orientation in the employment services of the Region of Murcia (Spain), based on the opinions of users and counselors. A  questionnaire was applied, performing a comparative analysis between intervening agents, in the framework of a survey study of a descriptive, inferential and correlational nature. Among the good practices perceived, the focus is on the user and their circumstances, while the shortcomings are mainly associated with the transparency of their methods and actions, and the accessibility of services. Also, in certain aspects  discrepancies are identified, withgenerally higher ratings among counselors.

In the absence of previous research on gentrification in Costa Rica, the objective of this article is to propose some elements of analysis to address the issue in this country. For this, the debate that exists around the concept, its application in other Latin American countries and its findings, as well as the characteristics of urban development in our country since the beginning of the 20th century is analyzed. The result is a theoretical framework and background of the subject, as well as a necessary discussion about the approach and the questions for a possible subsequent investigation. The main conclusionis that in Costa Rica there is a model of neoliberal urban governance, in which the State allows private sector action in the growth of the city, but does not directly direct orfinance it in terms of an urban governance model. business, and therefore, until now there have been no favorable conditions for urban renewal and associated processes such as gentrification in downtown areas. However, it is not ruled out that gentrification  is taking place in other conditions and with other characteristics.

This is a synthetic presentation of the political, ideological, legal and historical basis of the Costa Rican state’s funding to the Catholic Church, and also the funding amounts assigned to the church from five institutional mechanism under study. The field work consisted in reviewing institutional documents and interviewing officials in the respective institutions. The main conclusion of the work is that this relationship of exchange of gifts between the church and the state is based on a process of ritualization-blessing of political power, however, it is necessary to broaden the debate on the channeling of these funds as a debate of public policy.

This paper focuses on the relations between the business elite grouped in the main Costa  Rican business association and the state elite during the cafta political juncture, 2002-2007.  It employs the conjuncture analysis supported on documentary resources and testimonies of key witnesses. This was a social process that articulated significant sociopolitical tensions linked to the neoliberal accumulation strategy and the correlation between the interest of the business and the political elites, as well as their differences regarding the control of thesocial conflict in this period.

This article presents the results of a mixed study of corelational exploring design, did it with alimentary demand bound men from Costa Rica in first semester of 2018, which had the objective to analysis of the influence of alimentary demands in the life project, with the goal to describe the experience of the people who affront this kind of demands, trying to transcend the simple statistic description of this phenomenon.

The article focuses on the proximity programs that have been implemented in Uruguay since 2012 and that considered proximity work with recipients as one of their innovations. Based on an investigation carried out in 2016, which involved the analysis of documentary sources and the conduct of 60 interviews, it is concluded that this form of approach is not well founded and that the concrete form that it adopts collaborates with processes of individualization of poverty.

RETRACTATION NOTE The Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Sciences of the University of Costa Rica, has retracted the publication of the article "The  associations in Holguin during the years 1940-1950" presented by the authors Osmany Hernández Basulto and Isel Ramírez Berdut, which was published in number 164 (II-2019) because five pages of such an article are a literal copy of the first chapter of the book Sociability and culture of leisure: The Havana elite and their recreational clubs (Havana: Fundación Fernando Ortiz, 2009 ) by the author Maikel Fariñas Borrego. The objective of this article is to show that the members to such organizations in HolguínCity during the period between 1940 to 1950, belonged to the most economically welloffclasses in the city, a favorable condition for proposing and developing public actionsin the municipal council —from private initiatives— with repercussions on the utilityservices sector, as well as trying to solve some problems of everyday life. These membersinvolved in their actions to plenty of neighbors for the improvement and recognitionof the city as one of the most important in Oriente Province. For the elaborationof this article, the methodology used has privileged the qualitative paradigm, using methods of the theoretical level, among which are: 1) logical and inductive-deductive,for the interpretation of the information; 2) analysis and criticism of sources, takingas a procedure the methods of logic-historic thought applied to sources consulted; 3)hermeneutic-literary method , used to make inferences from the consulted documentation.

The languages of the popular demands and their inscription in the interstices of the policy, necessarily implies identifying the instances of processing -institutionally-where the power of the resistance is transcribed in the orders of the public administration. That is why an analysis of popular grammar using discourse and content analysis techniques to a set of interviews made within the framework of social movements in Córdoba, Argentina, during the period 2004-2010 was conducted. The present work is organized in three sections: the first contextualizes the Argentinian policy from the perception of the popular sectors; the second one warns about the emergence of new collective actors in the context of the 2001 economic crisis; and finally, the third develops the trajectory of state devices and popular organizations, addressed in the previous sections, but now in the territory ofthe province of Córdoba.