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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]

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]

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]

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]

This paper analyzes the concept of social policy as methodological approaches. First, argues that the definition of social policy must incorporate the core of the concepts: the dialectics between the constituted powers and constituent powers. In second place, it postulates that concepts have a distinctive basic content and proposes a minimum definition of social policy. In third place, it systematizes 26 definitions from specialized literature to establish the essential attributes of the concepts and finally proposes a definition of social policy. This proposal connotation may be useful for social research; it includes analyzed methodological approaches and differentiates social policy from other terms such as protection, security and social assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the implementation of the Argentina Trabaja social program in a municipality of Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the aim of showing that the intentions of the program to promote social and labor relations in the social economy were affected, in this municipality, by the characteristics of the political networks by which it was implemented. From this case, we argue on the one hand that political networks allow and accelerate the functioning of the State, since through them national social programs reach their recipients, but on the other hand, they limit the programmatic objectives. The work was done through a qualitative methodology that combined participant observation and in-depth interviews with municipal officials and recipients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyse and compare the mechanisms used to promote coordination in the Programa Nacional de Solidaridad (National Solidarity Program) and the Cruzada Nacional contra el Hambre (National Crusade against Hunger). Document analysis is employed to identify similarities and differences between the two programs. The results show that intergovernmental and interinstitutional coordination, although a to achieve in social policy. This research provides elements for the analysis of social policy and public administration. [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 we assess the impact on socioeconomic conditions, quality of life and empowerment of women who were beneficiaries of credit programs aimed at women’s productive projects. These projects were developed between 2000 and 2003 by four federal agencies (Sedesol, CDI'INI, Fonaes y SRa) in the states of Tabasco, Campeche and Quintana Roo in Mexico. Likewise, we examine the opportunities for individual, family and community development of the women involved in these projects. We identified the operating characteristics of these programs in order to identifies deficiencies in their performance and suggest viable alternatives for a better implementation and a higher social impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses microcredit as a possible instrument for local development, especially when some financial institutions arrive in local towns of limited resources with credit possibilities in soft conditions and when there is a constant training for the use of said resources on individual or collective projects for the production and the services. The paper analyzes the specific program of the Sistema de Financiamiento Rural Alternativo (SIFRA, System for Alternative Rural Financing), which has been implemented in the state of Jalisco for several years, with the support and collaboration of the government's Secretaría de Desarrollo Rural (Department of Rural Development) as well as that of several non-government organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]