Sistema Regional de Información
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el Caribe, España y Portugal

This study is part of a larger research project on gender and indigenous men. The objective is to analyze the work activities, paternity, and fathering practices of two generations of Tutunakú men from the Sierra Norte in the state of Puebla, Mexico. Previous research has documented that the primary function of fathers in this indigenous society is to provide for, and maintain, family subsistence. However, it is necessary to reflect on whether they configure and establish relations with their sons and daughters during their daily activities as parents, or in their workspaces. To explore this, we adopted a qualitative methodology that prioritizes the analysis of meanings and significance through in-depth interviews to become familiar with their life trajectories. Results show that fatherhood goes beyond simply providing for the family. Men’s work allows them to meet their families’ subsistence needs, but it is in their parenting practices that men incorporate caring activities and foment independence in their sons and daughters. Complying with these premises allows them to be valued by the community as responsible men and fathers.

In this paper, we analyze the activities of the Department of Physical Culture of the National University of La Plata, between 1929 and 1946, in relation to the formation of masculinities through sports among students at the university. Research was conducted using a qualitative methodological strategy, framed as a case study, and based on various sources of information. Findings suggest that, in line with certain meanings that were circulating at the time, the Department sought to foment such values as autonomy, responsibility, gallantry, character, and practice in homosocial settings. In other words, the aim was to show how these values, though generally presented as ‘natural’ and intimately ??associated with masculinity, are, in reality, taught and learned in institutions like schools, and in practices such as sports.

The need to transform Mexico’s pension system becomes more evident every day, and this has generated proposals for reform. This article assesses two proposals, both from the entrepreneurial milieu. The first suggests reducing the weeks of formal employment required to qualify for a guaranteed pension to 750; the second would raise the contribution rate from 6.5 to 15%, but not modify the required work period. The analysis utilizes the mathematical model that the National Commission for the Savings System for Retirement (Comisión Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro, Consar), applies to the average contributing employee. Results suggest that the first proposal could prevent people who were not poor during their working lives, but failed to complete the required number of weeks of employment, from falling into poverty. The second would slightly increase the amount of pensions but would not impact people’s vulnerability to poverty, though even a small additional increase would significantly reduce this risk.

This article reviews conceptualizations of notions of social capital and networks of social relations to specify how they could contribute to research in the field of stratification and social mobility. We summarize classic versions of social capital and some hypotheses of social network analysis, such as the strength of weak bonds and structural holes. We then discuss some of the ways in which research on class and social mobility has addressed the issue of social capital/networks and recognized their importance. Finally, we reflect on the potentialities and challenges of a confluence between analyses of class and social networks.

Various banking companies were founded in Mexico in the first decade of the 20th century, one was the Compañía Bancaria de París y México (CBPM), established in 1909. The CBPM carried out credit operations with the general public and lent money to governments, but was primarily an instrument that its shareholders used to finance their own companies, in keeping with the practice of insider lending that was common at the time but that led to the development of a biased banking sector that endured well into the 20th century and generated a high level of industrial concentration.

Mining is plagued by significant technological risks that since the second half of the 20th century have shown a growing trend that goes hand-in-hand with important technical innovations that have made the exploitation of low-grade mineral veins feasible and profitable. In this context, the state of Sonora, Mexico, has undergone a resurgence and expansion of mining activity in recent decades that has placed its inhabitants at a constant risk of suffering mining disasters. One example was the disaster caused by the Buenavista del Cobre mine, on August 6, 2014, when 40,000 cubic meters of acidified copper sulfate spilled into the hydric system of the upper Sonora River basin. The aim of our research is to address narratives of risk, people’s problems and fears, their time horizons (future/past), and their actions related to mining in communities along this river. The importance of this case study lies in the following facts: 1) it examines a topic that is of growing importance among social theorists (risk society and cultural theories); and 2) it contributes to the few works that to date have analyzed the complexity of communities' acceptance or rejection of mining activities. The study adopted a qualitative approach implemented through a social mapping workshop with open-ended interviews to learn about inhabitants' experiences related to mining in general and the spill in the Sonora River specifically.

This paper establishes the connections among three of the principal expressions of inequality and responses to them, emphasizing how inequality is related to discrimination in its modalities of class, race, and gender. Social responses to these three forms of inequality are exemplified and analyzed through a study of the formation of groups characterized by struggle and social action. Research was conducted along the dry Rivera/Livramento border between northern Uruguay and southern Brazil, understood as a regional geographic space. Tension and conflict were the epistemological and theoretical bases applied to establish the intersections between discrimination and resistance. The approach seeks to demonstrate inequality both quantitatively and qualitatively. The objective that underlies our analysis, and that guided much of the fieldwork carried out in recent years, is to demonstrate that although this border area is defined as ‘peaceful’, conflicts are an everyday occurrence. The article strives to demonstrate the existence of an unequal, discriminatory structure that underlies and generates resistant and resilient responses by social groups and subjects as strategies to escape injustice. This vision strips the Rivera/Livramento border area of its fantasy by laying bare the real conditions of inequality and confrontation.

The article presents a review of the feminist movement that developed in Mexico in 2019-2020, focusing on its results; specifically, the measures taken by the federal government and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in reaction to that social protest. We propose a typology of the authorities’ responses to social movements: automatic or reflexive, of appearance or circumstantial, opportunistic, and deep or far-reaching. Using this approach, we seek to discover the meaning of the actions taken by the federal government and the university’s authorities as they confronted a protest like this feminist demonstration, asking: were they designed to resolve the demands, postpone dealing with them, disqualify the movement, or repress it.