Abstract

ASCENSIO MARTINEZ, Christian Amaury. Violence as a rational action and mechanism for social inclusion in Coyoacán, Ciudad de México. Iztapalapa. Rev. cienc. soc. humanid. [online]. 2023, vol.44, n.95, pp.41-66.  Epub Sep 11, 2023. ISSN 2007-9176.  https://doi.org/10.28928/ri/952023/atc2/mezahuacujai.

The article analyzes the articulation between violent actions, youth and residential segregation in a popular neighborhood in Mexico City. It is based on a paradigmatic case of the Mexican capital: the Pedregal de Santo Domingo neighborhood, a self-construction neighborhood, labeled as the “black Coyoacán” or as “the ugly of Coyoacán”, as it is located in the so-called Alcaldía, which concentrates a wide cultural, artistic and commercial infrastructure, in addition to a high rate of human development. First, the dimensions of the concept of residential segregation and its relationship with the emergence of violent actions are specified. Subsequently, the relevance of conceiving violence as a rational action is deepened, that is, as the result of a deliberation between alternatives of action that leads, or not, to its choice of resources as a mechanism to access material and symbolic, hardly attainable through the legitimate channels present in the environment. The work carried out, from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNAM, with young people who have lived and live in the neighborhood, allowed them to summarize their testimonies about the place where they live and their relationship with violence and processes of social exclusion. To this end, focal groups were carried out and the information obtained was transcribed and subsequently analyzed within the framework of the concepts of residential segregation, violence and youth, from the theoretical approach of rational action.

Keywords : Youth; rationality; exclusion; city; violence.

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