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• The Socio-Economic Well-being Method (swm )as an alternative for multidimensional poverty measurement: a perspective from wages

  M. Reyes, M. López

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  In the measurement of poverty, the role of wages in the formation of household income has not been taken into account explicitly. The minimum wage arises in capitalist economies as a guarantee of a minimum level of well-being. The minimum wage established in the Mexican Constitution is linked to the satisfaction of basic needs, could well serve as threshold for poverty measurement. This article uses as income threshold for multidimensional poverty measurement the equivalent of the minimum constitutional wage. A new method for measuring multidimensional poverty is developed here: The Socio-Economic Well-being Method (swm ). Its procedures and results are contrasted with the lpmm and coneval s method. The swm identifies a very similar proportion of poor people as the lpmm . It highlights coneval s underestimation of poverty as well as the key role that the definition of thresholds and the procedures to combine dimensions play in measuring poverty.

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  In the measurement of poverty, the role of wages in the formation of household income has not been taken into account explicitly. The minimum wage arises in capitalist economies [...]

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• Violence against women in Northeast Mexico: elements for its contextualization

  M. Torres, J. Parra, F. Arellano

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The levels of violence and insecurity in Mexico have grown significantly since 2006, while female deaths with presumption of homicide rose alarmingly. In this paper we will describe some contextual elements on gender-based violence against women of our diagnosis of the Northeastern region of the country (Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas). We will offer some indicators of the position that women occupy in relations of power and production within the framework of the male hegemony. We will address the phenomenon of social violence in the context of the growth of criminality, public insecurity and the military presence in some of the estates of the region as a result of the declaration of the war on drugs. The evidence we present will allow us to define the context as that “specific set of cultural, economic and political situations and conditions in which it is socially possible and rationally understandable the presentation and the development of a phenomenon”.1

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  The levels of violence and insecurity in Mexico have grown significantly since 2006, while female deaths with presumption of homicide rose alarmingly. In this paper we will [...]

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• Modernity, reflexivity and postnormal science in risk society

  R. Flores

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This article aims to show the main proposals of Ulrich Beck about how the technological risks function in the context of the so-called second modernity, in order to expose their implications in terms of new forms of reflexivity in complex societies. We analyze the relationship between reflexivity, scientific knowledge and epistemological pluralism to understand how technological risks, posed with an increasing force, question the authority of science, therefore leading to new areas of organization, conducive to claim various groups excluded from public discussions on scientific and technological matters. In this paper, we try to provide some important elements for analysis of current problems regarding the risks and dangers technologically produced, allowing us to locate different forms of reflexivity in contemporary social environments. Therefore, we want to show the validity of the main tenets offered on the sociology of risk and the theory of reflexive modernity in relation to notions proposed by CTS studies in philosophy of science, specifically based on the approach of post-normal science raised by Silvio Functowicz and Jerome Ravetz, who problematize, like Beck, reflective political dimension of technological risks, however, he does it with a more epistemological emphasis which appears to an interdisciplinary and dialogical horizon concerning knowledge of the risk. Making this junction between both perspectives, allow us in our view, to understand the relevance of the contributions of the sociology of risk and expand their thoughtful routes in relation to other social philosophical fields

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  This article aims to show the main proposals of Ulrich Beck about how the technological risks function in the context of the so-called second modernity, in order to expose [...]

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• Violence against women and forced displacement. Analysis of life strategies of household heads in Medellin

  A. Amador, A. Domínguez

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The armed conflict faced by Colombian population from this last half century has produced more than five million displaced people in recent decades (near to 10% of the national population). Women and their children are an important part of this group. This paper focuses on women heads of households –which are authorities in the home and are responsible for its protection – that have been victims of forced displacement and have arrived in the city of Medellin. In particular, it focuses on the life strategies implemented by them over the years to deal with situations of violations of their rights and violence. Because of their rural origins, their low education, their numerous descendants, they must face new threats in the big city and are exposed to situations of uprooting, violence, poverty and social exclusion.

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  The armed conflict faced by Colombian population from this last half century has produced more than five million displaced people in recent decades (near to 10% of the national [...]

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• Bodies, subjects and political territories in Chile

  K. Oyarzún

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This paper discusses biopolitics, production and reproduction of the labor force, based on the interpretation of interviews carried out during 2010 with agribusiness workers, the majority of whom were women of the vi and vii regions in Chile. Beyond a diagnose of the deployment of domination technologies tatooing the bodies and subjectivities involved in food production, both industrial and domestic, we foreground sexual and gender protagonisms in the profound social, economic and political transformations implied by market economies. Chile is a country where the State was fundamentally reduced to “politics of death” during the Pinochet Dictatorship, and selectively so during the Post Dictatorial period.

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  This paper discusses biopolitics, production and reproduction of the labor force, based on the interpretation of interviews carried out during 2010 with agribusiness workers, [...]

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• Prefigurative politics of Latin America popular movements. Towards a new matrix of intellection for the social sciences

  H. Ouviña

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential “measuring unit” which allows for the analysis of the scopes and limitations of the innovative modes of organization and struggle put forward by the Latin-American social movements, with the purpose of confronting it with some of the concrete experiences that exist in Latin America. After defining prefigurative politics as a set of practices and social relations that, in the present moment, “anticipate” the germs of a future society, it is fundamented why this category might constitute a pertinent notion to approach this new processes, in which social movements emerge as a weighty collective actor by installing in the public agenda certain claims and demands, and influencing state institutions, but without their integration or subsumption to their government structures.

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  The main objective of this article is to recover the notion of prefigurative politics as a potential “measuring unit” which allows for the analysis of the scopes and limitations [...]

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• Styles of substance use by gender. An approach from speech analysis

  P. García, E. Mira

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The intention with this article is to shed light on the different characteristics in the consumption of addictive substances considering gender, in order to provide the tools and instruments which are essential to the design of programs and treatments that incorporate that perspective in their daily practice. The final aim is that these treatments are of greater efficiency, both in access/joining these women with addictions, and the outcome of rehabilitation. It is, thus, to acquire more knowledge to better use of resources and services that are operated reintegration of addicts both private and public partnerships. Differences socially assigned to each gender inequalities produced an impairment affecting the health, development and welfare of women relative to men. Through qualitative methods (interviews and focus groups), it has been evident from the analysis of discourse, how women consume, what kind of substances are more associations, social charges in addition to being a woman addicted (multiple discrimination) and difficulties show themselves when accessing drug treatment.

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  The intention with this article is to shed light on the different characteristics in the consumption of addictive substances considering gender, in order to provide the tools [...]

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• Opening horizons: civil society, State and hegemony in the work of Carlos Pereyra

  J. Reyna

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  In this paper we present some of the main ideas developed by Carlos Pereyra around the subjects of politics, the State and civil society. We review his reflections on this notions, placing them in the context of the reception of the intellectual legacy of Antonio Gramsci. Also, we expose the main ideas of Pereyra in the context of the Mexican State during the political conjuncture of the seveties. Our purpose is to locate the thread of continuity between Pereyras thought and Marxist political theory.

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  In this paper we present some of the main ideas developed by Carlos Pereyra around the subjects of politics, the State and civil society. We review his reflections on this [...]

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• Normative social epistemology: Fuller vs. Goldman

  M. Orozco

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  The aim of this paper is to discuss two normative versions of Social Epistemology (se ), whose initial approaches raised 25 years ago gave place to a new tradition. Revisiting the origin of each account one can find that their interest in normativity, despite their differences, tries to draw the attention of philosophical and social studies of science with the aim of analyzing their connections and provide them with a frame to take in their own inquiries of knowledge production the classical missions of epistemology. Yet, se as a broader interdisciplinary project raises the question of the role of epistemology in our time. The paper is divided in three parts. In the first, we give an account of the emergence of these visions, after that, we review each one of them in more detail and, finally, we end up with a brief comment.

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  The aim of this paper is to discuss two normative versions of Social Epistemology (se ), whose initial approaches raised 25 years ago gave place to a new tradition. Revisiting [...]

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• The violence against women in Western Mexico: Between institutional incompetence and social conservatism

  M. Ávalos, F. Reillo

  Collection of Acta Sociológica (2017).

  
  

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  This paper summarizes the most important results from a research project on violence against women in Western Mexico that forms part of the National Study on the Sources, Origins and Factors that Produce and Reproduce Violence against Women, coordinated by Florinda Riquer and Roberto Castro. In assuming a perspective that links violence with structural and symbolic components of the social order, it elicits the difficulties that social conservatism and criminal violence interpose in the pursuit of facing violence against women. Likewise, the paper analyzes the contesting role that authorities and institutions display in legislating and prosecuting violence against women in academic enviroments and the workplace. In so doing, it discovers an additional violence that women suffer: institutional violence.

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  This paper summarizes the most important results from a research project on violence against women in Western Mexico that forms part of the National Study on the Sources, [...]

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