Psychosocial and Cultural Research on Poverty in Mexico de Cirilo Humberto Garcia Cadena

Psychosocial and Cultural Research on Poverty in Mexico

Cirilo Humberto Garcia Cadena

This new and timely book deals with the magnitude and the intensity of the poverty in Latin America, Mexico and the state of Nuevo Leon. The enormous and chronic social problems of poverty in 1970 struck approximately 40% of the families of Latin America or 119 million people. In 1990, of 423,913,043 habitants of Latin America, 46% were living in poverty, that is to say, 195 million people were suffering this calamity (CEPAL). According to the same CEPAL, in 2002 44% of the population of Latin America was poor, whereas 19.40% were living in extreme poverty, indigence or misery. Seen in another way, the poverty in Latin America increased in that period of 20 years, from 1970 to 1990, 38.97%. At the moment, in Latin America there are 225 million poor people. This book is an essential reference to a problem which the world must, if for no other reason than necessity, deal with in a vigorous and just manner.

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Introduction; Study of households in poverty. A qualitative approach to life in Mexicos north-east border; Social representations of poverty in several Mexican groups; Image of the family and associated aspects of rearing with the potential of physical mistreatment infantile in the low social class in comparison with the middle and high social class; Domestic work, familiar organisation and social differentiation: the perspective of the women; The effect of the social identity, the political efficacy and the causal attribution on the social participation and the collective relative deprivation of poor Mexicans; Between tradition and modernity: identity conflicts and coping strategies of poor indigenous immigrant workers in Monterrey; Consolidation system for low income housing and the cultural environment where it operates; Poverty and Language.