Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America

The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.

List of 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

About the author

Xóchitl Bada is an Associate Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her articles have appeared in Forced Migration Review, Population, Space, and Place, Latino Studies, and Labor Studies Journal. She is the author of Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Her areas of specialization include migrant access to political and social rights, migrant organizing strategies, and transnational labor advocacy mobilization in Mexico and the United States. She is co-editor of the books New Migration Patterns in the Americas (Palgrave, 2018) and Accountability across Borders (University of Texas Press, 2019). She was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2019-2020.

Liliana Rivera-Sánchez received a Ph. D in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Professor and Researcher at the Center for Sociological Studies, El Colegio de México, Mexico City. She is author of 15 books (monographies and edited), 25 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, more than 35 book chapters, in Spanish, English and French languages. Her most recent book is (as Editor): ¿Volver a casa? Migrantes de retorno en América Latina. Debates, tendencias y experiencias divergentes, Mexico: El Colegio de México, 2019.

Product details

• Authors: Xochitl (Associate Professor in Latin Americ Bada
• Assisted by: Xochitl Bada (Editor), Liliana Rivera-S^D'anchez (Editor), Liliana Rivera-Sánchez (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2021
• EAN: 9780190926557
• ISBN: 978-0-19-092655-7
• No. of pages: 904
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General