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• Presentación

  M. Cázares, R. Duarte

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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• Presentación

  P. Cázares

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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• Social norms and poverty tresholds

  M. Ch.

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  Any measurement of poverty must specify a threshold and what this represents. Is it possible to avoid arbitrariness in the determination of these thresholds? Or are they totally subjective and depend on the observers values, prejudices and preferences? Or is poverty a real condition that causes suffering and exclusion from full participation in social life? This article argues that the meaning of adequate satisfaction of human needs is determined by social norms reflecting what society considers the minimum wellbeing to which all members should access. It proposes a methodology to identify these norms and emphasizes the process of their social structuring.

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  Any measurement of poverty must specify a threshold and what this represents. Is it possible to avoid arbitrariness in the determination of these thresholds? Or are they totally [...]

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• Hiperliberalism and conflictuality in Chile: A socio-epistemological interpretation

  S. Campo

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  Sociological analysis and political analysis have an epistemological support that determines the conceptualization of society and the position or placement of who analyzes it. This is the representation available that is provided for a contemporary developing society or one more developed. It is about theory or theories of society as social constructions. Even though they are based on the accumulated knowledge, they don’t eliminate values, beliefs, desires or fears. Thus, social theory is a symbolic system that not only interprets reality but also tries to give it meaning and sense, so it is also ideology. In this concept of social theory, it is possible to hypothesize the occurrence of what I call hiperliberalism and its effect in the absence or presence of social conflictuality. Conflictuality overshadowed and thus, more absent than present in the last 20 or 30 years in Chile, where economic liberalism-turned-hiperliberalism causes conflictuality subsumption of contestation, especially in an order materially impoverishing. His re-emergence will be verified by means of the student movement that will engage the whole society.

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  Sociological analysis and political analysis have an epistemological support that determines the conceptualization of society and the position or placement of who analyzes [...]

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• Growing poverty and increasingly unequal social structures in Mexico. A critical and integrated perspective

  J. Boltvinik, A. Damián

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  coneval s official methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty (ommmp ) is critically evaluated, which underestimates poverty, and is contrasted with the lpmm . It is shown that in Mexico: 1) incidence of poverty (h ) in 2014 is higher than in 1977, 2) the number of poor (q) between 1992 and 2014 grew both in the lpmm as in the dimensions of income and ubn (Unsatisfied Basic Needs), 3) by removing ommmp s word play act to separate ‘vulnerable’ from ‘poor’, the deprived population is similar in both methods, 4) there is a big contrast between stagnation of q with one or more social deprivations in ommmp and the significant growth of q (ubn ) in the lpmm, 5) between 2006-2014 not only H, but the intensity (I) of poverty, the equivalent incidence (hi ) increased, 6) there were strong changes in the social pyramid:dropsin the proportions of non-poor and of moderately poor populations, and rise in the proportion of extreme poverty, 7) there are strong inequalities between states and between rural, urban and metropolitan settlements.

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  coneval s official methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty (ommmp ) is critically evaluated, which underestimates poverty, and is contrasted with the lpmm . It [...]

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• PRESENTACIÓN

  J. Boltvinik

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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• Institutional violence against women in Northwest Mexico

  M. Celaya, M. Gálvez

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This paper examines the existing regulatory framework for addressing violence against women in Mexico, both nationally and at the level of the four states that make up the geographic area where the research was conducted. We present some of the manifestations of violence: communal, in the workplace and feminicide. Emphasis is placed on how these are overlapped and harnessed by institutional violence, for which we take up the ideas of experts on the subject of violence. The results reveal how institutional practices re-victimize and violate their rights. In spite of the advances in legal matters, we do not yet have the sociocultural conditions to ensure that women can exercise their rights and lead a life free of violence.

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  This paper examines the existing regulatory framework for addressing violence against women in Mexico, both nationally and at the level of the four states that make up the [...]

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• Anthropological epistemology as knowledge of man: The rol of anthropology of technoscience

  A. Hernández

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The project of an epistemology of anthropological sustenance similar ideas akin to those who have expressed solidarity between epistemology and social theory. In the present case, the theory of knowledge is symbolized by an idea in the political epistemology, understood as political epistemology and a theory of human scale represented society, understood as anthropology. This article will visit the elements of this relationship conceptual and epistemological issues in some authors founders of anthropology and anthropological critics of the twentieth century epistemology, anthropology of technoscience and the proposal of a possible epistemology supported by the main dimensions matrix conceptual epistemological anthropology.

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  The project of an epistemology of anthropological sustenance similar ideas akin to those who have expressed solidarity between epistemology and social theory. In the present [...]

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• The policy of the rights of the government of Mexico City

  L. Enríquez

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This text deals with the analysis of the policy of the rights of the government of Mexico City which took place during the last three administrations. This government is considered as an institution identified with the political left of the country since it bases its government strategy on two core pillars: the democratization of the government and the design of new redistributive policies, mainly the social policy. With these referents, an analysis is made with the most important political guidelines, which characterized this policy since 1997. Thus a process of continuity is identified in the three administrations in which consecutively the political, social, civil and “collective” rights were introduced. It is analyzed in each case the specific policies which made valid these rights and it is emphasized the different limitations related to those policies. Finally, we highlight the difficulties and contradictions that these governments have faced due to the fact that it is a policy put into practice in the framework of an urban development deep inside neoliberal policies and the global economy rules.

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  This text deals with the analysis of the policy of the rights of the government of Mexico City which took place during the last three administrations. This government is considered [...]

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• Numerical simulation of turbulent air flow with dispersed droplets in cooling tower eliminators

  B. Zamora, A. Kaiser

  Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería (2017). Vol. 33, (1)

  
  

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  This work presents a numerical study on the turbulent flow of air with dispersed water droplets in separators of mechanical cooling towers. The averaged Navier-Stokes equations are discretised through a finite volume method, using the Fluent and Phoenics codes, and alternatively employing the turbulence models k − ϵ, k − ω and the Reynolds stress model, with low-Re version and wall enhanced treatment refinements. The results obtained are compared with numerical and experimental results taken from the literature. The degree of accuracy obtained with each of the considered models of turbulence is stated. The influence of considering whether or not the simulation of the turbulent dispersion of droplets is analyzed, as well as the effects of other relevant parameters on the collection efficiency and the coefficient of pressure drop. Focusing on four specific eliminators (‘Belgian wave’, ‘H1-V’, ‘L-shaped’ and ‘Zig-zag’), the following ranges of parameters are outlined: 1 ≤ Ue ≤ 5 m/s for the entrance velocity, 2 ≤ Dp ≤ 50 μm for the droplet diameter, 650 ≤ Re ≤ 8.500 for Reynolds number, and 0.05 ≤ Pi ≤ 5 for the inertial parameter. Results reached alternately with Fluent and Phoenics codes are compared. The best results correspond to the simulations performed with Fluent, using the SST k − ω turbulence model, with values of the dimensionless scaled distance to wall y+ in the range 0.2 to 0.5. Finally, correlations are presented to predict the conditions for maximum collection efficiency (100 %), depending on the geometric parameter of removal efficiency of each of the separators, which is introduced in this work.

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  This work presents a numerical study on the turbulent flow of air with dispersed water droplets in separators of mechanical cooling towers. The averaged Navier-Stokes equations [...]

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