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This research aims to better understand how the notion of cultural heritage in Mexican legislation is –and has been– used and abused, and its starting point is the legal environment of the cultural sphere as well as documents deriving from federal legislation. Through a qualitative approximation and an analysis of national and international regulations, a current landscape was sketched out of a social reality that is linked to social representations of the Mexican cultural heritage. This paper discusses the use and abuse of the notion of cultural heritage in legislation at national level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The definition of a role and social status is fundamental in people's lives, but these intrinsic social representations can change with the arrival of old age. The role and social status of Mazahua senectes from San Felipe del Progreso, State of Mexico, was analyzed from an ethnography carried out in the year 2022, with which a tendency towards their loss in the study group was detected, linked in a directly with their situation of poverty and dependency, expressing itself in different forms of abandonment, exclusion and discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several decades after the so-called double burden was placed on the debate table, and shortly after it was recognized as a triple burden, this phenomenon is still present as a practically insoluble problem in the perception and dynamics in most women. The objective of this article is to present the results of a broad investigation focused on the analysis of the continuities and transformations of traditional gender roles in women with leadership positions in the business sector in Mexico, from the theory of social representations. Qualitative methodology was used, specifically life trajectories, which allows approaching subjectivity as a sociohistorical phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: In this article, the significance of health and health practices in a group of artisanal fishermen from Yucatan, Mexico, are analyzed from the theory of social representations. Methodology: With a qualitative approach and ethnographic design, indirect observation was carried out in social networks (Facebook), direct observation in the community, and interviews with 10 artisanal fishermen, having as an axis of conversation discomfort, well-being and affectivity. Collection ended when saturation was reached. The information was typed for later content analysis using the ATLAS.ti 8 program. Results: The representative content is obscured by the dominant medical discourse, which emphasizes disease and its treatment. The body becomes the repository of discomfort. At the same time, it serves as the object that reflects it. At the affective level, there is a contradiction between living happily without worries and living with the fear and uncertainty of having a good catch or returning home. Conclusion: The discourse on fishermen's health protects contextual references that are built on an economic foundation that obscures the fishermen's problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Given that the pandemic generated by COVID-19 has caused much unforeseen havoc, this paper shows how higher education students of a nursing degree program at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, socially confronted this virus, with an approach to their feelings, attitudes, opinions and experiences during the confinement and the actions lived by them. To answer the question, an online questionnaire of mostly open-ended questions was used, which was analyzed through the technique of thematic content analysis. The findings show social representations that, although very local, were very similar to those found in other parts of the world (sadness, fear, anger, confusion, etc.), which is not too surprising given the vertiginous fluidity of the traditional and virtual media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cooperations or transfers of the German technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system have taken place in different cultural contexts in recent decades. In Mexico, the so‐called Modelo Méxicano de Formación Dual has been adapted to Mexico's cultural conditions. Yet, it still seems to be largely unknown in society, the education system and the labour market. Attitudes, perceptions or so‐called 'social representations' are culturally anchored in a society and can be identified in artefacts and individual narratives. Especially social representations of company gatekeepers, such as human resources employees are focused because they regulate access in companies and to higher positions. Although this happens on the basis of organizational transition policies, decision‐making processes are shaped by culturally anchored individual perceptions. The target group of company gatekeepers from the tourism sector was interviewed within the framework of a qualitative study during eight semistructured 'face‐to‐screen' interviews, analysed according to grounded theory methodology. Based on social representation analysis, the Mexican labour market seems to be dichotomized. Academic titles have a high symbolic value, promising prestige. TVET options are given little focus, lack a high social esteem and are still largely unknown. Those produce técnicos, while holders of oficos often do on‐the‐job training within their families. Both depend upon their employers and have to accept unfavourable working conditions. This implies physically demanding, often gender‐specific work. Promotions are possible, even without academic degrees. Because of a lack of institutionalization, these are subjective, depending on the goodwill of company gatekeepers. Promotions are possible to a certain extent, so nonacademic workers are facing a glass ceiling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico, as in all of Spanish America, independence from Spain was followed by a period of political instability. This instability was related, in particular, to the need to find new forms of and procedures for political decision-making and ways to create new political identities given the rise of new concepts such as national sovereignty, representation and the general will in the era of Atlantic Revolutions. This article sheds light on pronunciamientos as a form of representation which became prominent in Mexico. Some pronunciamientos were outright rebellions but they were more often a ritualized practice used by many social actors to express their will in political conflicts. Along with elections, they took on a mediating function between the government and representative bodies and the citizenry. Pronunciamientos changed the one-directional relationship between ruler and ruled that had been common during the colonial period. Communication between the local, regional and national levels intensified considerably and printed public spaces merged with oral spaces. The importance of pronunciamientos lay not only in their direct influence on political decisions but also in their symbolic function. The article shows how surprisingly fast these elements of pronunciamientos came to life in 1823, a decisive year for the Mexican polity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text is aimed to expound the social representations, from the information, field of representation and attitudes regarding the physical education and sports profession which are shared by physical educators in training at the University of Colima, Mexico. Is a descriptive study. For the empirical inquiry, a semi-structured questionnaire was applied to 166 students through Google Forms platform. Results of the information students possess regarding the profession derives from digital means, family, friends, and acquaintances, and mainly revolves on the physical educator's characteristics and job profiles. Also, it is possible to determine that the field of representation includes five views of the profession: easy and discreditable; initial high vocation; athlete and teacher profile; enthusiastic, versatile, passionate, and committed; and social agents in health, physical well-being and values. Regarding attitudes, the results reveal a positive inclination, whereas there is a direct link between the vocation they have for this discipline and their personal interests in the career path they wish to take. It is concluded that physical education and sports profession is socially undervalued, but students have positive views and attitudes in the context of training and job field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This reflection stems from a series of qualitative investigations related to the profound cultural, aesthetic and erotic impacts on Mexican society. The insertion of Mexico into the Free Trade Agreement, together with the United States and Canada (1994) promoted new erotic offers, as well as the construction of images and narratives of a country that was reinventing itself and becoming Americanized at a dizzying pace. Likewise, social representations and their ideological load are intended to be denaturalized, now that economic exchanges have been renegotiated in a new trade agreement (2018). And a government that symptomatically calls itself Morena and promises a new historical narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender identity and roles are two of the most complex and important aspects of sexuality, as they define how people should think, feel and behave within society according to the gender they identify with. They are formed from the experiences, beliefs and evaluations that each person makes from childhood about what it means to be a man or woman in a society, which is influenced by both the socio-historical context and the biological factors of sexuality. Adolescence is the critical period of development when great bodily and psychological changes are faced, which forces people to behave according to their sexual nature and the acceptance (or non-acceptance) of the gender culturally associated to their genitals. Social representations (SR), in turn, allow us to understand how collective thought is formed around a specific phenomenon and how the social context influences the construction of beliefs. Thus, this study has set out to describe the SR of gender identity and roles in a group of adolescents in a secondary school in Mexico. To achieve this goal, the research has been framed within the qualitative paradigm, working under the phenomenological design from the process approach of SR. A projective technique of incomplete sentences was used to access the beliefs of the adolescents who participated in the study. The instrument used was the Incomplete Sentences on Sexuality of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, which is composed of 10 reagents that explore gender identity and the behaviors related to it. The sample consisted of 73 students aged 12 to 16 years from a secondary school in the city of Santiago de Querétaro in Mexico. A thematic analysis was carried out to identify the codes, categories and subcategories present in the students' responses, and finally the method of consistency checking was applied based on the review and analysis made by another coder of the results obtained in order to guarantee the objectivity of the study. In this way, the categories of gender identity and cultural gender roles were obtained, within which subcategories emerged that encompass the concepts of masculinity and femininity for the participants, as well as the disadvantages associated with these two genders for the first and the second categories (roles, professions and behaviors that are prohibited for men and women). Among the results, it is evident that the SR of most adolescents around gender identity and roles have been constructed under the sex/gender system and have been influenced by what they have seen or heard from their parents at home. Therefore, the behaviors they believe they can perform are linked to the gender stereotypes they have included within their belief systems and values. This shows that for most participants sex and gender are synonymous, implying that people's behavior, roles, attitudes and characteristics are defined by the sex they are born with, in which men are superior and women are inferior. According to this analysis of the narratives expressed by the participants, it was found that a small group are included within what has been called the "new masculinities". Finally, it is worth mentioning that the novelty of the research is represented by the instrument and technique used, which allowed the participants to know how everything they have seen and heard in their homes has influenced their definition of what it is to be male, female and the roles of people in society according to their gender. It is recommended that more studies be done in the future on the construction of gender in adolescents, since it continues to be an issue of social tension and inequality in Latin America and throughout the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 21st century, more than five million people left Venezuela. Since 2015, Mexico has been a receiving country for Venezuelans. The objective of the article is to analyze vulnerability contexts, socio-spatial distribution and social representations of Venezuelan migrants in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area (mma), Mexico. The fieldwork was carried out during the summer 2020, under pandemic conditions, using mostly digital platforms and information coming from various official sources. The methodology has a mixed approach, prioritizing the qualitative aspect. The used techniques were hierarchical evocation and mental maps for social representations, as well as a survey for socio-spatial distribution and vulnerability. Among the conclusions, family and friends' networks stand out as support for the Venezuelan who arrives at the mma, generally a prepared subject. The predominant vulnerability is related to finding stable jobs, accessing public health services and having quality education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To analyse the potential of atole de plato to be considered as an element of agrotourism in El Estanco, municipality of Luvianos, State of Mexico, through the theory of social representations. Methodology: The study is based on an exploratory qualitative approach; through participant observation it was possible to identify the meanings and symbolism surrounding the elaboration of atole de plato for its use in tourism. Results: Using the theory of social representations, it was identified that atole de plato is a food with cultural, historical and social value, a situation that postulates that it is at a stage prior to its insertion into the tourism offer of rural destinations that have opted for tourism as a path towards development. Limitations: One of the limitations of the study is the difficulty of grounding the postulates of the theory in empirical operational terms, as well as the cultural hermeticism of the family group studied. Conclusions: The study concludes that atole de plato has latent potential for inclusion in the local agro-tourism offer; however, it is necessary to establish an integrated offer with other community resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research aims to identify the social representations of students in Management and Promotion of Culture at a public university in Tabasco at southeastern Mexico. It was analyzed using the theory of social representations. The methodology used was quantitative using the survey as the data collection technique. Regarding the social actors under study, we worked with the fi nite population, through the non-probabilistic technique. The social representations of the students of the fi rst generations of said degree have as a central nucleus, the concern for the current distancing of society with culture, so they consider that their professional duty is to create a link through projects of Intervention projects that manage to change these perceptions of the people of their entity, which is a challenge they acquire as students of cultural management, and very soon as graduates. The limitations of the research are derived in terms of the number of population with which it was worked, which was the one belonging to a public university, remaining outside those dependent on government institutions that are focused on artistic creation. The lines through which this research work can be extended is the follow-up of the fi rst generations of graduates and their insertion into the labor fi eld. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico, industrially grown and transformed foods have seen their consumption explode over the past half-century and soft drinks embody an emblematic example of the impact these shifts can have on health, traditional foodways, and family agriculture. This study compared the role of sodas with a traditional maize beverage, pozol, in the state of Chiapas, specifically among rural and urban secondary school youth. We found that students find sodas to be desirably "refreshing" and "tasty," and associated them with wealthier social classes and an alluring vision of modernity. Pozol, on the other hand, was seen as "peasant food" or a poor-person's drink. Nonetheless, most students have not abandoned its consumption and indeed, for many it represented their most significant daily liquid intake. Importantly, it was seen as more than refreshing libation, serving as a vital food source. We also found that within Chiapanecan society, pozol in fact represents a host of varying versions, whose consumption parallels ethnic, socioeconomic, and rural/urban factors. Ultimately, some traditional foods have maintained a certain resilience in the face of more globalized foods, in part because of their perceived nutritional and cultural value, thus helping to reinforce the resilience of the peasant agroecology they depend on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Gender violence, despite the efforts of national and international organizations, continues to be a daily problem in Mexico; This is not only presented in visible ways, but there are also symbolic manifestations, interwoven in the discourse and in the ideas, which go unnoticed. The main objective is to identify the social representations of women in the commercials of Tecate beer in order to appreciate symbolic violence from an interdisciplinary approach and based on a qualitative methodology. In these materials, women are represented from two conceptions: from the dichotomous idea of gender or as a secondary object on which the discourse does not fall explicitly, but rather establishes an analogy that shows ideas, images and stereotypes around them. The classic representations of women prevail, where they are associated with traditionally assigned roles. Inadequate representations are manifested, such as the ones that reinforce epistemic domination, establishing as elements of feminine legitimation the values imposed by patriarchal structures. Equally, imaginary appear to reproduce the controlling images of gender as the mother-wife, always excluded from the public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Mexico and the world, cancer is one of the leading causes of death. Associations with this disease can have an impact on the quality of life of patients and health professionals practising oncology. As a result, it was considered relevant to study the social representations (SR) of cancer and to make a comparison between oncology patients and health professionals. Methods: The study was conducted in an oncology centre in the state of Querétaro, Mexico, and the sample consisted of 10 patients and 10 health professionals. Using qualitative perceptual analysis, it categorised the words mentioned in "free listings" and thematic analysis. Results: Categories of unpleasant emotions, coping, treatment and opportunity were identified in both groups. There were differences between SRs of cancer patients and health professionals; professionals included displeasing emotions in themselves (in addition to patients), elements of the doctor-patient relationship and administrative-economic aspects. Conclusions: There are some similarities between health professionals and cancer patients in terms of cancer perception; however, there are differences that should be considered. One of them is that health staff also present emotional discomfort (even if they are not the ones who have the disease), patients did not present the category "death". In contrast, health staff did, this as well as the administrative-economic category. These findings allow us to explore the perceptions of staff and patients to determine future lines of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The United Forces for Our Disappeared in Nuevo Leon (FUNDENL) is a group of mothers and wives of people who disappeared. FUNDENL organizes autonomously to find their family members. This group is maintaining the legacy of women who have historically mobilized against disappearances, such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo during the dictatorship in Argentina or the mothers of the Eureka Committee during the "dirty war" in Mexico. Why are women the ones who, in most cases, decide to search for their loved ones? The goal of this text is to analyze the gender dimension in the representations of collective identity and activism of the members of FUNDENL by observing their processes of resistance and empowerment through a feminist lens. The article argues the practices in their struggle, such as the embroidery for peace, are linked to their own experiences as women and mothers. Life histories and qualitative field work are used to understand this issue. With traditionally feminine practices, such as embroidery, the mothers and wives of FUNDENL resignify motherhood and love in the struggle for the disappeared, constructing new references about the role of women in social mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper explores the advantages of using framing theory, social representations theory and differences in ideology to analyze polarized issues in the press. Framing uncovers the structure/format of news articles and social representations explores their meanings. These two theoretical positions are connected through the concept of ideology – a set of beliefs that shape position taking regarding social issues. Using this integrated framework, we will analyze the highly polarized topic of violence and drug trafficking in two ideologically different newspapers in Sinaloa, Mexico - Noroeste (journalistic ideology) and El Debate (elite ideology) (total N = 547 articles). This will be accomplished using three steps – a descriptive analysis, application of the framing scale and submitting the articles to ALCESTE software. The results show differences in framing and social representations of violence and drug trafficking according to ideology. Each newspaper presented different news frames (journalistic - attribution of responsibility and conflict frames; elite - human-interest and morality frames). However, at the level of representations (content) there were ideological differences in the representation of violence but not of drug trafficking, suggesting a common element in these representations, beyond ideological differences. These findings contribute to (1) the clarification of the concept used and (2) towards an analytical framework of press analysis - analyzing format and content and considering differences in press ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents an account of social representations and practices of men and women in a Yucatán municipality regarding the negativity, positivity, and ambivalence over alcohol consumption with respect to their health and social relationships (violent and non-violent), based on the local categories of "knowing how to handle alcohol" and "not knowing how to handle alcohol." This ethnography was conducted within the framework of critical medical anthropology with a relational approach. Fieldwork was carried out over a period of 11 months (2016-2017) in Cuzamá, a municipality in the former henequen-producing area of Yucatán. During this period, the researcher resided in and lived alongside the community. The research was primarily conducted with eight significant actors (four men and four women from 25 to 40 years old), as well as other secondary and tertiary actors, through individual interviews, group interviews, "informal" conversations, and above all participant observation. The results show that in terms of representations, alcohol consumption is primarily discussed from a place of negativity. Although it leads to and is in fact associated with certain health problems, in terms of practices, alcohol consumption is seen as the source of physical, emotional, and relational health benefits. This is evidenced in popular knowledge regarding alcohol consumption, which is characterized by discontinuity and ambivalence more than continuity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives: understand the structure and content of the maternal representations of Mexican teenagers during their first pregnancy. Methods: a study was carried out with qualitative methodology based on the concept of maternal representation and the theory of social representations with 30 adolescents who attended prenatal control at the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara "Fray Antonio Alcalde", in Jalisco, Mexico. The participants were interviewed with the consent of their tutors. Classical content analysis techniques were used to obtain codes and thematic categories to develop a conceptual map that explains maternal representations. Results: the maternal representation was identified: "Pregnant but reunited, a legitimated bad decision", which was composed of social meanings towards adolescent pregnancy, family dynamics, expectations towards motherhood, and the feelings experienced by the adolescent during the pregnancy. The content of the representations was heterogeneous for most of the identified categories; however, it is identified that the desire for pregnancy guides the expectations of the adolescent about her future way of being as a mother. Conclusions: the desire of women for pregnancy, the level of participation of the couple, and the social meanings of adolescent pregnancy, have an outstanding role in the development of models of maternal representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An environmental improvement program was implemented to reduce population exposure to manganese in the manganese mining district of Molango, in Mexico. This paper analyzes whether social representations about mining activity changed after the program and examines their implications for risk management. We used a qualitative design to compare prior with current social representations. Region residents insist that contamination affects their environment and health. In contrast, public officials and mining company staff find no evidence of harm; they regard mining as a source of regional and community development. Our findings indicate that residents know little about the environmental program. These representations hinder the achievement of cooperation agreements and risk management. We recommend that manganese risk management implements a comprehensive environmental recovery program that includes the perspectives of all the social actors. Social representation theory served to understand the discourses of social actors on manganese mining, taking into account their social context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Strictly speaking, this text is not a history of Mexican nineteenth century. Probably it is not a work on social representations, if this last one supposes a series of theoretical and methodological interstices that sometimes appear like inevitable. In spite of both questions, the text is not totally disconnected from the conceptual and methodological frameworks that govern the disciplinary development of history and social psychology. Rather, the aim of this work is to use some part of the theoretical framework of social representations to offer a partial response to a problem that has been developing for some time in the field of Mexican social, cultural and intellectual history. In recent decades, nineteenth-century historians in Mexico, particularly those dedicated to the analysis of nineteenth-century politics, have circumscribed much of their discussions to the obvious interest of the political class in the creation of citizens. In the context of this discussion, our aim is to use the theory of Social Representation as a possibility to explain this process, arguing that the notion of modernity is inserted in the political class of the Mexican nineteenth-century mediating its anchorage with the concept of the nation, and that the impatience for the creation of citizens could be explained by assuming that in them lies the figurative nucleus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes and evaluates the so called Mexican National Identity, as an approach to social representation of national identity. The approach is a theoretical construct made from the framework of political psychology. National Identity is defined as the social representation of the sense of belonging to the nation-state institutions. It is strongly tied to the concept of civic and political character, considering the latter as the sense of participation with nation-state institutions. Both constructs based on a very ample survey applied, in different years, to all regions of Mexico. This research revealed very low scores for the political, economic, social and cultural institutions along the 20 years in which the survey was applied. The results were understood as an institutional meltdown. This possibly explains the advancement of the Anomie that Mexico is suffering up till now. This process destroyed great part of citizens' solidarity, producing growing violence and continuing social instability and economic inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the framework of social representations, this study addresses gender and identity in a situated context of recursive vulnerability in the southeast of Mexico. The first section establishes the theoretical premises and presents the common sense relation between social representations and gender. This is followed by the second section where a discussion of the studies of identity and gender identity is elaborated, looking at the relation between perspectives focused on the individual and those oriented towards culture and the social. This gives way to the third section, a triangulated qualitative case study in three phases about gender identities in the port of Celestún in Yucatán that elaborates on two main analytical dimensions: vulnerability and emotional distress. The article closes with a brief concluding reflection. Overall, it addresses the systemic and polysemic richness of representations and gender identities in terms of both process and content at the same time as linking research to action in a community. In addition, from a perspective of interaction, it analyses discursive practices linked to hegemonic social representations of gender identities which given their perverse logic of subjective naturalization and consensus in the structure of social behaviour constitute one of the most resistant obstacles to the configuration of liberating systems that can orient subjects towards a logic of rights and well-being, further exacerbating vulnerabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the methodological strategy for the study of the socio-cultural construction of the identity of drug-using students (ECD) to know if their representations influence the construction of a social identity susceptible to social exclusion. In that sense, the focus for the study of this problem is anthropological and ethnographic work was carried out during 2004-2007. The collection of information was through the application of protocols for the observation of contexts, as well as interviews with several key actors, and thematic oral histories of ECDs. Thematic content analysis was applied. Information between sources was also triangulated. ECDs were represented as lacking a school identity bond, young people who do not internalize school norms, an issue that allows teachers to deny them the opportunity to progress academically, thus legitimizing their educational exclusion. The use of drugs (CD) and other practices (participating in fights, stealing, selling drugs, evading authority) were representative of their individual and collective identity. These practices were not assumed as a product of decision, but were part of their primary socialization. Institutions should interpret the meanings that young people give to CD and associated practices, not impose values and practice around drug rejection. They should aim at equalizing possibilities of social integration, overcoming socio-economic conditions and freeing young people from stigmatizing constructions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the "spontaneous drawing" of different age groups in public spaces in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico; with the intention of establishing how the urban imaginaries in relation to the socio-spatial elements, are presented as modes of cultural expression. Through the application of techniques of qualitative research, such as the ethnographic observation and analysis of "mental maps" we can established how "the urban imaginary" could express experiences of life in urban spaces (in the consciousness of the person), and how them could be reflected in spontaneous drawings. On the other hand,the results of this research allowed us to understand which urban and architectural elements present in public spaces are significant for the inhabitants of the city, as well as their level of identification with them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a way to characterize the social representations that have students of the Degree in Communication from the Faculty of Arts and Communication at the University of Colima, about the meaning, the importance and the usefulness of research in their formation process arises professional. The research was conducted with a qualitative and phenomenological approach based on the use of discussion groups, whose implementation allowed to know the meanings and social representations that build students about career They are studying and research as part of their training. The results show that students have a great semantic richness and strong personal involvement that grants, research, an important role as curricular component, but parallel has a low recognition as an option for those pursuing professional career development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study had as main objective the exploration and description of social representations that children of primary school fifth grade expressed on human rights. The study was conducted from a qualitative approach. It was carried out in the Rural Emiliano Zapata Elementary School community Xochiteotla, Chiutempan, Tlaxcala, México. The study population consists of 26 students between 11 and 12 years old. The results showed that children have a vision of human rights, built from its context, and embodied in people who fulfill a social function. While human rights also become things and situations that appear in your reality; both in its language and in its graphical representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports a qualitative research that identifies Mexican high school students’ social representations of mathematics. For this purpose, the social representations of ‘mathematics’, ‘learning mathematics’ and ‘teaching mathematics’ were identified in a group of 50 students. Focus group interviews were carried out in order to obtain the data. The constant comparative style was the strategy used for the data analysis because it allowed the categories to emerge from the data. The students’ social representations are: (A) Mathematics is…(1) important for daily life, (2) important for careers and for life, (3) important because it is in everything that surrounds us, (4) a way to solve problems of daily life, (5) calculations and operations with numbers, (6) complex and difficult, (7) exact and (6) a subject that develops thinking skills; (B) To learn mathematics is…(1) to possess knowledge to solve problems, (2) to be able to solve everyday problems, (3) to be able to make calculations and operations, and (4) to think logically to be able to solve problems; and (C) To teach mathematics is…(1) to transmit knowledge, (2) to know to share it, (3) to transmit the reasoning ability, and (4) to show how to solve problems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some routes of analyses around the following question: How to incorporate ethically the problem in their daily actions, and similarly, how to avoid the successful strategies of oblivion and indifference? are addressed in this paper. Certain emphasis is made on the gained importance that the popular processes have specially those related to the youth, while, thanks to their narratives, they increase and succeed, on a daily basis, over the authoritarian rhetoric seeking to silence memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo discute la participación de mujeres en la música rock en Tijuana, Baja California, México, con énfasis en las representaciones sociales sobre estas músicas, conocidas como rockeras. Se ofrece un resumen de la escena del rock en Tijuana desde la década de 1980 hasta 2011, bajo el concepto de contracultura. Los temas discutidos incluyen los estereotipos de género, la idea de feminidad y la subordinación como estrategia de negociación.

The article discusses a research on the regional rivalry between the communities of Sahuayo and Jiquilpan in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, with a focus on social conflict as a key element in the construction of local identities. Subjects discussed include a brief overview of the conflict back to the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas from 1934 to 1940, local rivalry as a modality of ethnocentrism, and religious celebrations, as well as political culture as sources of social representations.

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This article describes the social representation, held by elementary school teachers in the municipality of Puebla, of science and technology as elements that allow society to know and transform nature. The basis of the description is the theory of social representations, with the methodology proposed by its structural branch. In general terms, science and technology are perceived as somewhat more favorable for humans than for nature. A reconsideration of their roles in society may trigger a process of transition toward a Mexican model of science and technology that will respond better to the nation's social, cultural, and natural needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses how the construction and institutionalization of social representations in Tepoztlán, Mexico, have influenced the definition of tourism in this community. We propose the concept of an intimate experience economy to analyze the forms of institutionalization that places, practices, symbols, and relationships have and how they together generate what most people consider authentic experiences, recreation, and comfort. The article concludes that tourism is a complex network of social relations that has a tendency to create asymmetric relations of exploitation and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]