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The sociology of Latin America, established in the region over the past eighty years, is a thriving field whose major contributions include dependence theory, world-systems theory, and historical debates on economic development, among others. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America provides research essays that introduce the readers to the discipline's key areas and current trends, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies deploying a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
The essays in the Handbook are arranged in eight research subfields in which scholars are currently making significant theoretical and methodological contributions: Sociology of the State, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements, Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology, and Sociology of Violence and Insecurity. Due to the deterioration of social and economic conditions, as well as recent disruptions to an already tense political environment, these have become some of the most productive and important fields in Latin American sociology. This roiling sociopolitical atmosphere also generates new and innovative expressions of protest and survival, which are being explored by sociologists across different continents today. The essays included in this collection offer a map to and a thematic articulation of central sociological debates that make it a critical resource for those scholars and students eager to understand contemporary sociology in Latin America.
Contents
Preface
A Detailed Panorama
Javier Auyero
Part 1: Introduction
1. On the Sociology of Latin America: Some Key Pieces of the Puzzle
Liliana Rivera-Sánchez and Xóchitl Bada
Part 2: Sociology of the State
Coordinator: Viviane Brachet-Márquez
2. States in Latin America": Are They Still Worth Studying? An Introduction
Viviane Brachet-Márquez
3. Historical Construction of the State in Latin America: A Field in Formation
Viviane Brachet-Márquez
4. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Guatemala: The Contention over Changing a Seigneurial Society
Matilde González-Izás
5. Capitalism and the State in Latin America: Economic Power, Social Inequality, and Environmental Depletion
Esteban Torres and Carina Borrastero
6. From Social Insurance to Poverty Relief: Avatars of Social Protection in Latin America
Mónica Uribe Gómez
Part 3: Social Inequalities
Coordinator: Minor Mora-Salas
7. The Sociology of Social Inequality in Latin America
Minor Mora-Salas
8. Differences, Inequalities, and Labor Markets in Latin America: Some Hypotheses
Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
9. Inequality, Social Mobility, and Racism in Bolivia
Carmen Rosa Rea Campos
10. Patterns of Social Inclusion and Exclusion Among Youth Living in Stigmatized Neighborhoods
Fabiana Espíndola Ferrer
11. Social Violence and Privilege. Strategies of the Upper Middle Class in San Salvador
Irene Lungo Rodríguez
12. Inequality and Social Justice in Latin America: Youth's Perception and Values
Celi Scalon and Pedro Paulo de Oliveira
13. Ideological Inversion and the (De)legitimation of Neoliberalism in Chile
Ismael Puga
14. Privilege Accumulation Among Upper Middle-Class Youth in Mexico
Minor Mora-Salas and Orlandina de Oliveira
Part 4: Sociology of Religion
Coordinator: Olga Odgers-Ortiz
15. From Sociology of Latin American Religions to a Latin American Sociology of Religion
Olga Odgers-Ortiz
16. The Sociology of Religion in Latin America: from Theoretical Dependence to Its Specificity
Roberto Blancarte
17. Religious Diversity, Popular Religions and Multiple Modernities
Cristián Parker Gumucio
18. Four Keys to Understanding Religious Experience in Latin America
Hugo José Suárez
19. Practices of Sacralization: A Theoretical Proposal for a Sociology of (Popular) Religion from Latin America
Eloísa Martín
Part 5: Social Movements and Collective Action
Coordinator: Nicolás M. Somma
20. Social Movements in Latin America: Mapping the Literature
Nicolás M. Somma
21. Labor Movements in Latin America
Federico M. Rossi
22. Latin American Women's Movements: A Historical Overview
Cora Fernández Anderson
23. Student Movements in Latin America
Germán Bidegain and Marisa von Bülow
24. Indigenous Movements in Latin America: Tensions, Contradictions, Possibilities
Roberta Rice
25. Economic Globalization and Social Movements in Latin America
Paul Almeida and Amalia Pérez Martín
Part 6: Sociology of Migration
Coordinators: Liliana Rivera-Sánchez and Eduardo Domenech
26. Sociology of Migration in Latin America: Formation and Development of a Field of Study
Liliana Rivera-Sánchez and Eduardo Domenech
27. Migration and Development in Latin America
Alejandro I. Canales
28. Migration, Borders, and Identity in the Latin American Context
Laura Velasco Ortiz
29. Gender and Migration in Latin America
Marina Ariza
30. Migration and Immigrant Organizational Forms in Latin America
Luis Escala Rabadán and Xóchitl Bada
Part 7: Sociology of Gender
Coordinator: Gioconda Herrera
31. The Sociology of Gender in Latin America: from Social Mothers to Sexual Rights
Gioconda Herrera
32. Violence Against Women: Contributions from Latin America
Montserrat Sagot
33. Contributions from the Sociology of Care in Latin America
Karina Batthyány
34. Gender and Work in Contemporary Latin America
Erynn Masi de Casanova
Part 8: Medical Sociology
Coordinator: Roberto Castro
35. Medical Sociology in Latin America
Roberto Castro
36. The Trajectory and Identity of Sociology of Health in Brazil
Everardo Duarte Nunes and Maria Cecília de Souza Minayo
37. A Sociological Approach to the Study of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Argentina
Betina Freidin and Matías Ballesteros
38. Sexual Stratification and Sexual Agency Among Low-Income Girls in an Andean City
Carmen Yon Leau
39. Mexican Women and Decision Making in Health: The Practical Sense
María del Carmen Castro Vásquez and Patricia Aranda Gallegos
Part 9. Sociology of Violence and Insecurity
Coordinator: Arturo Alvarado
40. The Sociology of Crime and Violence in Latin America
Arturo Alvarado
41. Sociology of Fear of Crime in Latin America
Gabriel Kessler and Alejandra Otamendi
42. Homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean
Alberto Concha-Eastman, Edgar Muñoz and Mateus Rennó-Santos
43. Arming the Americas
Katherine Aguirre and Robert Muggah
44. Urban Violence and the Spatial Question: The Built Environmental Correlates of (In)Security in Latin American Cities
Diane E. Davis
45. Border Violence in Latin America: An Expression of Complementary Asymmetries
Fernando Carrión-Mena and Markus Gottsbacher
46. Illicit Drugs and Organized Crime in Latin America: New Scholarship and the Future of Alternative Policies
Angélica Durán-Martínez
47. Forced Displacement and Globalization in Latin America: Causal Factors, Policies, and Perspectives
Pablo Emilio Angarita-Cañas
48. Violent Victimization in Poor Neighborhoods of Bogotá, Lima, and Santiago: Empirical Test of the Social Disorganization and the Collective Efficacy Theories
Liliana Manzano, Alejandra Mohor, and Williams Jiménez
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