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In Mexico, there is a lack in academic research about bisexual Health-Disease-Attention process. This paper analyzes the main problems about health-disease for bisexual people with a Social Medicine and a Collective Health approach. In order to do this analysis, this paper offers a systematization of research's discoveries related to the Health-Disease-Attention process in bisexual people. Problems on health-disease for bisexual people include worse mental health conditions in comparison to gay and lesbian people. As psychologists have few contextualized knowledge about bisexual health-disease situations, then they cannot adequately respond to bisexual people needs. Bisexual Health-Disease-Attention process is an historical and social product where the lack of visibility and the negative valuation functions as mechanisms to regulate people's sexuality, which can be reproduced in Health-Attention places, such as Mental Health ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The changes in Mexican economic policy within neoliberalism implied serious transformations in labor relations and forms of labor organization. Based on this, the aim of this paper is to analyze the implications that practices such as protection contracts and subcontracting had on the organization of workers, and the subsequent labor reforms, still limited, which make possible new schemes of dynamization within unions, through new demands framed within the rights of labor citizenship. Methodologically, a brief description is made of the main changes in the Mexican economy and the labor context since the last decade of the last century and the first two of the present Century. This is linked to the conceptual elements of the centrality of labor and labor citizenship. It concludes by pointing out that labor reforms make possible new scenarios of opportunity for Mexican trade unionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The different death practices (and their origin) that Mexican drug cartels have been using for the last two decades and their reproduction in every day social spheres, as well as their ties to the State that challenge theoretical frameworks and approaches. In this paper we attempt to think necropractices from the immunitarian framework of Roberto Esposito but radicalizing it in order to be able to attribute epistemic responsibilities for the proliferation and reproduction of the knowledge(s) of death that has reached the whole of the social. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Commonly known as “sea spiders”, pycnogonids are a group of exclusively marine arthropods. In Mexico, 62 species of Pycnogonida have been reported from almost all the coastal Mexican states. This data is the result mostly of investigations carried out by foreigners and recent studies of sporadic collections focused on meiobenthos fauna. The aim of this paper is to disclose the samples of pycnogonids contained in the National Collection of Mites (CNAC), which was part of PhD. Anita Hoffmann’s collection and which was collected from two different locations in the Mexican Pacific by PhD. Federico Bonet in the 1940s. Three species were identified from the total of 20 specimens: Achelia sawayai (Montagu, 1808), Anoplodactylus californicus Hall, 1912, and Endeis cf. spinosa Marcus, 1940. For the first species, a record is added to the already known wide distribution. E. cf. spinosa was recorded for the first time in the Mexican Pacific, and for A. sawayai, records of its distribution in the country are expanded. Furthermore, the importance of biological collections as material sites for the recognition of biodiversity is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using interpretative analysis methods, the paper looks at policy and analyzes the meaning, values and judgements implicit in the devices that gave footing to the program's creation and of the analysis of six interviews with public officials in a position to make decisions and that participated in part in the creation or modification of the program. The results show that the prejudices of the culture of poverty are present in the documents that gave rise to the program, in the founding documents of the program and within the narratives of said public officials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and particularly, mitigation measures taken by government institutions in Mexico, such as the closure of all schools at all levels of education, have brought strong regressive consequences in terms of both education and gender equality. In this paper, we start from a theoretical framework of gender and family to analyze, along with the negative repercussions of this measure (especially for women and children), an embodied experience of upbringing and community education in Mexico. This experience seeks to preserve educational and labor rights violated by school closures such as sociability, guardianship and custody of minors, the right to a life free of violence, work-life balance, among others. Our aim is to suggest some keys for an ecofeminist and community solution to the education crisis in this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico, during the 2012-2018 six-year term, the National Crusade against Hunger (CNCH) was implemented, in which social participation played a central role in combating the lack of access to food and promoting social welfare. With the creation of Community Committees and the support from promoter staff, this strategy aimed to strengthen and ensure the active and constant involvement of the population; however, there were a number of factors that had an impact on the difficulties in achieving sustained community participation. The objective of this paper is to show the factors that limited social participation in the implementation of the CNCH in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, through the voices of the implementing staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The academic and human legacy of Martín Leonel Zurita-García (1979-2020) is highlighted in this document. His academic career, especially in his universitarian period, is described. He devoted his research to the field of Entomology, in particular, to the Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology of elaterid beetles, as well as Forensic Entomology. He published 17 scientific papers, and four book chapters; he also participated in five national and two international meetings. Martín Zurita is the author of seven Coleoptera taxa. He was a teacher of Systematics, Biogeography, and Forensic Entomology subjects at the Sciences School and Medicine School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He was advisor or co-advisor of nine Bachelor's thesis in Biology, with topics such as Systematics, Faunistics, and Forensic Entomology. He also participated as a jury member in four graduate students' examinations (three Master's degrees and one Ph.D.). The second part of the document is testimonial: it includes the touching words expressed by siblings, advisor, friends, students, and colleagues, in whom Martín Zurita made a deep impression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a multiple case study developed in three periurban locations in central Mexico, this paper aims to present the theoretical model that was used in the analysis of social reproduction strategies of periurban households. To this purpose, Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical approaches to the reproductive dynamics of the social world, as well as the central categories of field, habitus and capital, are recovered. The proposed model allows explaining the factors involved in the formation of reproductive strategies systems at the locality level, as well as the attachment or deviation of family practices to that system. Beyond its potential for the analysis of social reproduction in the periurban territory, it is considered that this model may be appropriate for the analysis of family strategies in contexts of profound structural changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a sociological perspective and based on data published by the Ministry of Health on the covid-19 pandemic in Mexico, this paper describes the situation of medical services, health infrastructure and the effects of obesity, diabetes and hypertension on the significant number of deaths. The probability of becoming infected and dying is analyzed in association with comorbidities. Results: since the 1980s there has been no significat change in health services, neither in health infrastructure; in that period there was an exponential increase in patients with diabetes, hypertension and obesity; From the total number of covid-19 deaths registered up to the date of analysis, 65.8% suffered from at least one of the three co-morbidities; finally, the probability of dying from covid-19 increases in men over 54 years of age who suffer from some co-morbidity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we present the results of a survey applied to a sample of municipal officials about the 2014 Reform of the Social Infrastructure Fund (fais). The questionnaire was applied during the second quarter of 2015. We found that the majority of city officials considered appropriate the new rules of operation of the fais. Their concerns relate to the possible reduction of resources allocated, and the further complication to access the funds. It is recommended to disseminate the reform to get city officials familiar with it, and implement a user-friendly operation for municipal administrations, that is also consistent with the objectives of transparency and focalization reflected in the reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the collaborative journalism developed by the Alianza de Medios Tejiendo Redes, a project that brings together journalists from 11 news portals in Mexico. From interviews with members of the Alliance and a quantitative approach to the texts produced in their different portals, it was found that not only protection and updating networks can be formed, but also to undertake joint projects that dispute the word to position an informative agenda based on respect for human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores a form of digital communication among young people that arises with the cheapening of digital technologies and the emergence of the Internet: sexting. Based on a qualitative methodology and a gender theoretical approach, it explores the forms of experience and significance of this practice in young people aged 15 to 19, from two Mexican cities. It is concluded that sexting should be understood as a collective practice, not individual, inserted in a framework of gender relations and, therefore, of power. It seeks to contribute to the understanding of a new and hardly studied communicative phenomenon in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Water for human consumption has become in one of the most complex and diffincult resources of the market. The objective of this paper is to analyze some of the determinants influencing economic valuation and commercialization of this resource in the Estado de México. This analysis is supported by some elements of economic theory that allows contrast with the contemporary conditions of access and enjoyment. The results show the financial character, increasing the social risk and vulnerability. This paper extends the view of water in economic science. It's a milestone that strengthen the holistic discussion to generate concrete and viable proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze metaphors and their persuasive function in journalistic discourses in favor of migrants in irregular transit through Mexico. To do this, conceptual metaphors used in texts on Central American transit migration in the Mexican national press of 2014 will be analyzed. Likewise, the metaphor is discussed as a mechanism of persuasion through the appeal to emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the situation of social security in Mexico after two decades of the reforms that led to the process of privatization and individualization of pension systems. It makes a balance of the benefits attributed to its implementation, as well of the existing economic and political conditions that move towards the universalization of social welfare in the country. The evidence shows disappointing results: the financial situation of the institutes remains precarious, their coverage is limited, and pensions represent a quarter of the average salary quoted. What worries the most is the insistence on applying the same measures (raise contributions, reduce benefits, and commercialize the operation of the system), offering in exchange universal access to a minimum pension and to an incipient unemployment insurance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of the quality of democracy has focused mainly in whole countries, paying little attention to local governments. In light of this absence, the present paper describes some of the issues and prospects related to the study of the quality of democracy at the subnational level. By looking at the inconveniences posed by the Mexican case, the paper intends to call into question the theoretical, conceptual, methodological and contextual predicaments for the study of the quality of democracy in local governments. The foregoing with the aim of promoting a research agenda that seeks to resolve such problems and build reliable evidence that allows us to obtain better explanations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes, from a theoretical point of view, the development of an explanation of Mexican youth social vulnerability through some statistical evidence, which showed the weakness of institutions, which have been favorable to the reproduction of gender inequality that is linked at the same time to the context of poverty and social inequality. It is concluded that in Mexico City precarious youth plays in various ways despite the institutionalization of the different social assistance programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper study factors related with the perception of insecurity in residents of priority geographical polygons in Acapulco, by descriptive and correlational statistical analysis. Data was collected through a survey following a representative sampling within each polygon, for testing mean differences. The results revealed that the perception of insecurity is associated with schooling, confidence in the police, criminal incidence, the existence of street gangs, and the polygon of residence. Also was found a weak correlation, but statistically significant, between the perception of insecurity and the proportion of modified activities due to fear of crime, which in turn is associated with sex, age group, criminal incidence, and its polygon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the spatial distribution of corruption index at state level in Mexico between 2001 and 2010. The corruption index shows a non-random pattern and is detected that the cluster of states is located at country center. It's used GDP as determinant of corruption index, the level government intervention and gender issues. The results show that there is a spillover effect for corruption among states in almost all years. There is a positive relation between GDP and corruption. Policy implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the institutional design of the state of Quintana Roo and its political change during 2016 elections. In this context, it is exposed that beyond the causes that led to democratic change in the state, these are not decisive to consolidate the political change due to the original institutional design, which manifests itself in a bureaucratized society and depending on government agents, which faces a dichotomy: on the one hand, it seeks an improvement in the state government decisions, and on the other hand it resists the institutional equilibrium change on which its socio-political structure was designed. The analysis is carried out with the theoretical contributions of New Institutionalise! and Subnational Democracy, supported by open interviews with key actors of local politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles a survey on woman's space working segregation theyare integrated in the global capitalism of flexible accumulation inGuadalajara's Metropolitan Area. Against the mainstream analysis thatrelies on the central positions of men living in global cities of developedcountries, the paper reflects on marginal positions embodied by womenin second or third world cities. In doing so, it exposes, besides globaldynamics, some particularities coming from the local context that representthe urban segregation of active women in Guadalajara's MetropolianArea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a theoretical framework that links gender perspective-public budgets with the modernization of the public administration, taking as the starting point its parallelism with the result-oriented management and public finances. Also, it focuses in the advances in the implementation of budgets for gender in the world and it discussed its scope and limitations in the case of Mexico, based on the review of international agreements and their results in the institutionalization of the category of gender in public policies and plans in the federal and local government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the characteristics of jobs in the services sector, especially sales or customer service by phone, emerged in the call centers. These jobs show recent changes in labor relations, where the alleged formality and benefits are questioned, because it is only a new form of job insecurity. For research, call centers' workers were interviewed in t he Guadalajara metropolitan area (ZMG), applying semi-structured interviews about their working conditions. The findings show how most of these jobs are not basic, individual contracts are temporary and can be concluded without liability for the employer; unions are nonexistent; the intensity and job control is high; and the rate is imposed by machines and generate job stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to make a critical exploration of the literature produced in Mexico between 1970 and 1990 on its political and economic elites. We seek to know the analytic dimensions and the theoretical frameworks employed by the authors. Behind the main object we investigated whether authors had been done any connection between the interaction and exercise of power of the political class and the business class in the literature, with respect to socioeconomic conditions of society. We found that this aspect was not within researchers' interest, although during the predominance of Marxist paradigm in the 70's some analysis were close to the issue. This circumstance made Mexican scholars did not to follow the debate on the elites in the US academy those years. In the 80's, researchers gave prominence to the business class and its organizations from institutional approaches, nonetheless most of the works were not supported in theoretical and methodological frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the results of the evaluation of an instrument on gender institutional culture are analyzed using the principal components method. The structure and parameters of its validity and reliability, as well as the differences obtained by sex, are described. The sample consisted of 1,144 individuals from the educational, health, and research sectors in northwestern Mexico. The results showed four components: administrative processes, employment equity, benefits, working environment, and authoritarianism, which explain 40.90 of variance with a Cronbachs alpha of .88. With these obtained values, the instrument is considered valid and reliable to evaluate institutional culture and identify gender bias. Methodology can be replicated to adapt the instrument to other regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyze how the video surveillance puts the personal data that manage in a space of legal indeterminacy, and how generates process of social and space classification that derive, sometimes, in forms of social exclusion. The perspective that frame the capacity that individuals have to construct autonomy and control spaces against the stratification and domination logics. From this perspective, it's analyzed how the weak or inexistent regulation of video surveillance cameras in Mexico can affect the citizenship practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I present some of the findings of my doctoral research "Parental Arrangements of gay men in Mexico City: destabilization or continuity?" While identifying the similarities and differences in the arrangements of people of the sexual diversity, I analyze and criticize the terms homoparentality and homoparental family, and I point out some of the implications of using such terms without identifying the legacy of its creation and I propose some other options. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with sexual behavior from a gender perspective in women from a town located at the south of Veracruz State, Mexico. I point out how the female sexual behavior is a result from that particular male society and how it imposes moral codes to women, due to their male hegemony which needs to control female sexual behavior. I analyze that sexuality is a social construction and a changing historical product, therefore sexual moral codes are present as changing elements that show in advance the social picture and the female fantasies over their moral obligations. Also, transgressions from the "ruling" perspective are explained in accordance with the idea that accepted sexuality is genderized from a moral point of view but not relevant with the actual activities of the collectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of the Mexican online journalism in fostering a virtual public sphere according to the ideals of deliberative democracy. The paper discusses a qualitative analysis of three of the most important digital news sites and a quantitative analysis to 1 390 comments to their national news ítems. These platforms offer limited spaces for participation and the discussions are scarce and lack of solid arguments, tolerance and congruency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the events underwent by the indigenous community of Mezcala when the Mexican government decided to organize on the Isla de Mezcala one of many celebrations of the Bicentennial of Independence. It is through the narratives of comuneros and young supporters that the institutional networks of power and various governmental actions that allowed the material and symbolic appropriation of the celebrations are unmasked. Likewise, this article proposes to highlight the complexity and connection (global-national-local) of the networks of power and to show the negotiation points opened where different visions of 'development' are confronted that further outline community projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to develop some sociological explanations of violence by the Mexican government combat organized crime call. For this reason, the Mexican state violence is regarded as the introduction of new rules aimed at the non-recognition of the informal practices of organized groups that control, for example, so lucrative drug trafficking. However, the state order is imposed in a context of social vulnerability, defined as a weakness of citizenship, for example, civil and social rights. Especially because the idea of public safety state, based on technological methods of control of the collective integrations in public spaces, undetermined civil rights and at the sometime, it has failed to consider that social policies were state protections that prevent the spread of poverty and misery, considered as another cause of the proliferation of illegal activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the feminist perspective on the political economy of communication as well as on quantitative data, the goal of this paper is to analyze the women's participation in Mexican media industries, as owners, managers, including their participation in decision making processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes a group of women who created the Union Nacional de Mujeres Mexicanas, its formation and historical development, by interviewing one of its founders and the book written about it. The aim of this article is to reveal the interactions between feminism and socialism. There is little information about this organization and it is mostly unknown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]