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JIMENEZ NAJERA, Yuri. La construcción social del statu quo en la Universidad Nacional de México (1910-1914). Cultura representaciones soc [online]. 2013, vol.8, n.15, pp.43-72. ISSN 2007-8110.

From a social constructivist perspective, based both on Pierre Bourdieu's field theory as well on Max Weber's theory of legitimate orders, the text discusses the original configuration of the campus and the status quo established between 1910 and 1914 at the National University of Mexico later known as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), particularly in regard to the constitution of the academic, political and labor orders established in the early years of the institution's existence. This raises the question of the extent to which, during the 100 years of the university's history, these social orders have changed and/or remained at the present time as a result of the action of internal and external agents. The campus, like any other constructed social microcosm, consists of a relatively autonomous social context of cultural production with specific characteristics: socio-historical origin, self-constructed history, disputed capital-power, sui generis organizational structure and operating logic, with those agents involved in its institutional configuration being the very same agents to legitimize its institutional order. In the case of the UNAM, as a socially constructed space, its initial configuration involves both the Porfirian State style of bureaucracy as well as being projected as a State university. It incorporates university bureaucracy (with its high concentration of power, its orthodoxy and its control of order) together with the 'founders' of academic groups and the developers of academia (divided into the various disciplines and hierarchies) with students from these same areas (critical of established authoritarian order). The dominant bloc integrated by the various bureaucracies established an institutional academic-political-bureaucratic labor-state order which exercises tight control over academic relations, labor relations and political relations within the university. Such an authoritarian regime restricts the participation of university academics and students in defining the institutional order.

Palabras llave : social constructivism; university field; university order; academic power; academic staff; Autonomous National University of Mexico.

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