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• Mexican fiscal system inability to reduce poverty: a measurement of pro-poorness

  L. Huesca, L. Llamas

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This paper performs an evaluation of the redistributive effect achieved through the tax-benefit system in Mexico, including the tax burden and conditional cash transfers for the poor and households in 2014. We answer the following question: What will the impact of the Mexican tax-benefit system be for the poor as well as its households? i.e, of pro-poor type? We conceive this analysis with an approach where the World Bank agrees, the pro-poor approach. In order to recognize if taxes and benefits can really compensate the poor and induce a reduction on relative and absolute poverty, we proceed with this novel measurement. Pre-fiscal income is built by comparing the tax burden and the distribution of benefits applied in both databases, the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares –enigh – and data from Método Integrado de la Medición de la Pobreza –mmip –. According to the equivalence scale of coneval as well as that from the mmip with their corresponding poverty lines, we proceed to develop a core set of recommendations for improving the tax system and its effect on the poor.

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  This paper performs an evaluation of the redistributive effect achieved through the tax-benefit system in Mexico, including the tax burden and conditional cash transfers for [...]

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• La voz y el legado sociológicos de Michel Foucault a 30 años de su muerte

  R. Duarte

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• Know about struggles from struggles. Reflections on the polymorph deployment of antagonism: Community networks and political horizons

  R. Aguilar

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  From critical theory, there is a proposal to think social struggles from the deployment of their contradictions and the instability they produce in the existing order. For its comprehension, the author proposes a methodological tool which implies the systematic analysis, on one side, of their interior horizons, namely, their political aspirations, and on the other, of their practical scope, that is, of the fully recordable features during the deployment of the struggles. Thus, the systematic record of the visible practical scopes during the deployment of the struggle, allows us to become aware of the interior horizon which sustains them and from which they themselves open their own perspectives, reinventing them permanently and outlining horizons of possible political transformation.

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  From critical theory, there is a proposal to think social struggles from the deployment of their contradictions and the instability they produce in the existing order. For [...]

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• The Endless Dissent: Debates about the social dimension of knowledge in Social Epistemology

  I. Aguilar

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The goal of this paper compares the notion of social dimension of knowledge in two recently projects of Social Epistemology developed by A. Goldman and S. Fuller. The work in divide in four sections. In the first, expose the context and antecedents of Social Epistemology. With this background in the next two sections, I note in a brief way Goldman’s and Fuller’s explanations about why they consider in their own perspective the feasibility and necessity to develop normative judgements about social dimension of knowledge. Finally, in the last section I conclude talking about the need of still looking for meeting points between the normative and the descriptive perspectives of knowledge, to be able to build correct and multidimentional images of normativity from social epistemology and sociology.

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  The goal of this paper compares the notion of social dimension of knowledge in two recently projects of Social Epistemology developed by A. Goldman and S. Fuller. The work [...]

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• Love as a sociological problem

  A. Andrade

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The main objective of the paper is to show how love in society can be connected to certain sociological problems like social bonding. When love is analyzed through its connections to disciplinary problems, some differences appear in relation to society and sociology itself. The paper ends with some reflections on these differences and an agenda for future research.

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  The main objective of the paper is to show how love in society can be connected to certain sociological problems like social bonding. When love is analyzed through its connections [...]

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• Epistemological discussions about the reflexivity in sociology. Adorno, Bourdieu and a proposal based on the reflexive critical theory

  E. Gambarotta

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  This paper proposes an epistemological conception for sociology, based in a (self)reflexive movement that put in question the questioning point of view itself. For this we study the perspective of two authors with different but not incompatible theories, we refer to Th. W. Adorno and P. Bourdieu. Both of them give a central place to that reflexive movement, since it is a key instance of the effort to catch how impacts the social entwining in the practice of sociology, in its modus operandi . Over this base we discuss with the epistemological substratum (not always explicit) of two predominant perspectives in presents days sociology (especially in cultural one). On the one hand the culturalism, and on the other hand the post-structuralism. This shows the currently and potentiality of this discussion about the epistemological contributions of reflexivity for contemporary sociology. Since it gives us a way through which ask ourselves about the blind points that our practice of sociology contains, to maximize its potentialities within these limits. This discussion is an instance of the more general proposal of a reflexive critical theory of the society.

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  This paper proposes an epistemological conception for sociology, based in a (self)reflexive movement that put in question the questioning point of view itself. For this we [...]

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• Erving Goffman and the interaction order

  J. Galindo

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  This articles main goal is to introduce the reader to the fundamental aspects of the sociology of Erving Goffman. More than a mere summary of his works, the article interweaves concepts coined by the author throughout his career, in order to present a general characterization of his sociology. The common thread of this presentation is the concept of interaction order as a sui generis reality.

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  This articles main goal is to introduce the reader to the fundamental aspects of the sociology of Erving Goffman. More than a mere summary of his works, the article interweaves [...]

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• The concept of risk in the theories of Ulrich Beck and Niklas Luhmann

  J. Galindo

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  Undoubtedly, the concept of risk is one of the main theoretical tools available to contemporary sociology to account for the dynamics of modern society. Among the authors devoted to think of risk from a theoretical point of view, Ulrich Beck and Niklas Luhmann stand out. This paper presents, analyzes and compares the reflec- tions on the subject of risk made by these authors. The article concludes by outli- ning the possibility of complementing the ideas of both authors.

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  Undoubtedly, the concept of risk is one of the main theoretical tools available to contemporary sociology to account for the dynamics of modern society. Among the authors [...]

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• Uses and limits on reflexivity in the work of Anthony Giddens

  P. Rossi

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  The concept of reflexivity is key within the body of work of Anthony Giddens because it links basic topics such as agency, routines and institutions. A bibliographic analysis examines reflexivitys different uses and limitations. According to the problem about the link between the micro and the macro in sociology, the first part identifies the role of reflexivity within the theory of structuration. Then the analysis shifts to the role of Reflexivity in the production, reproduction, and change of modern institutions. Finally, as means to increase the analytic usefulness of the concept, a proposal for three uses of the term reflexivity is discussed. The proposal also highlights the perspective of observation and the subject of reflexivity. The proposed distinctions are put into play in order to argue against the apparent contradiction between reflexivity and routines. The conclusion highlights on several of the limitations in Giddens’ work and show a few ways to advance with the study of Reflexivity.

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  The concept of reflexivity is key within the body of work of Anthony Giddens because it links basic topics such as agency, routines and institutions. A bibliographic analysis [...]

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• Spheres and expressions of violence against women and girls: Survey-based evidences

  S. Frías

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This paper present evidence of some of the multiple expressions of violence against Mexican women. The lack of analyses tha use representative samples about violence against women hinders its visualization and jeopardizes women’s right to live a life without violence. By using recent surveys, this paper summarizes data about the prevalence of violence against women and children across their lifespan –childhood, adolescence, and adulthood– in family settings: forced marriage, selling of women, and violence perpetrated by women’s relatives. In school and work settings data about sexual harassment and bullying, as well as the prevalence of pregnancy screenings are presented. Regarding women’s experiences of institutional violence, their experiences upon seeking formal help for partner violence or rape in public institutions are examined. It is argued that social construction of gender inequalities support these expressions of violence. However, their analyses need to be studied as the result of the intersection of gender, race, class and sexuality systems.

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  This paper present evidence of some of the multiple expressions of violence against Mexican women. The lack of analyses tha use representative samples about violence against [...]

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