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This article reflects on the perspectives of exchange and rational choice theories in sociology as intellectual explanations. The essay is divided in three parts: one historical, one theoretical, and one epistemological. The first establishes some prominent features of the situation surrounding the emergence of these approaches, which helps us understand their historical and ideological matrix. The second examines their conceptual and methodological elements and their core theoretical positions, identifying some of their inconsistencies and virtues. In the third, the author identifies some of their underlying epistemological premises and the place they occupy in the history of enduring ideas, with the goal of better understanding their limitations and reach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a study of the self-styled "altered movement" in Mexico. It posits that the appearance of this phenomenon is the result of the confluence of the internal evolution of Mexico's traditional corridos and the social and cultural decomposition the country is experiencing. The author recognizes the "sick corridos" as the musical heart of the "altered movement," while the social and cultural deterioration allows for the scandalous presence of drug traffickers in this "movement," at least through the lyrics of the "sick corridos." The analysis of the "altered movement" confirms the presence of a culture of violence in music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The link between a musical genre and its audience's social expressions is the basis for the concept of socio-musical identity. This category assumes that a collective formation based on musical preference exists anchored in specific local or regional conditions that take in migrant music. This article analyzes the reception of the "tribal" genre in San Luis Potos', Mexico's municipalities of Villa de Guadalupe and Matehuala. The author is able to follow how recent music, known as "tribal music," went through both municipalities. The way it was appropriated allows him to construct a fruitful contrast in view of the category of socio-musical identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to show one of the central axes for processing some of the new forms of social identity in our contemporaneity: sports in general, and specifically, soccer. The text deals with soccer's multidimensionality and proposes lines of basic analysis vis-à-vis the dimension linked to the generation of socio-sport identities. As far as research has gone today, an important absence of this kind of studies in Mexico is generally recognized as is their importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]