Lucio Mendieta there Núñez

Lucio Mendieta Núñez (1895-1988) was there a sociologist and Mexican Juriste . Its work on the rural world and the Agriculture in Mexico is important and it is one of the persons in charge of the transformation of Mexican sociology into an institutional field.

Role in the institution of Mexican sociology

Mendieta Núñez was strongly implied there in the constitution of institutions of research, popularization and diffusion of social sciences in Mexico. For this reason, one regards it as one of the founders of institutional sociology in Mexico. Thus, for example, Mendieta Núñez will be the instigator in 1930 there Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales ( Research institute social ), Revista Mexicana de Sociología ( Mexican Revue of sociology ) which will be created in 1939 and of the Cuadernos de Sociología ( Cahiers of sociology ), that it will launch in 1947. In addition he will be for a long time president of the Asociación Mexicana de Sociología.

Instituto de Investigaciones Social

From 1939 to 1965 he will be director of Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico City (UNAM). The Institute was created in 1930 with its initiative. As of its beginnings this institute will be one of the rare institutional members of the International association of sociology. This Institute has like objective to popularize social sciences.

Revista Mexicana de Sociología

In 1939, it will create Revista Mexicana de Sociología which will publish theoretical and empirical Spanish articles. This one is the oldest review of Social sciences still in activity in Latin America.

Its sociology

Its sociology is of inspiration wéberienne, one finds there, for example, the categories of prestige, being able and authority. Indeed, Mendieta Núñez concentrates there on the study of the relations of being able and the notations symbolic. It defines the company as the meeting of individuals who live constant and complex interrelationships material and spiritual. Its sociology approaches the legal one and the policy in terms of relations between groups and representation of the social stratification.

Sociologist of rurality

During its studies of right to Mexico City, Lucio Mendieta there Núñez, originating in Oaxaca in the south of Mexico, takes party for the rural workers. As from the years 1920, it will occupy several functions of conseillor in the federal administration like with the Partido Nacional Revolucionario. During all its career Mendieta Núñez maintained there relationship close with the public administration which he advises with many recoveries on sets of themes related on agriculture and the relations with the first nations. In its studies on the rural world, Mendieta Núñez analyzes there the agricultural policies, but also the stratification and the representations. He studies various aspects of the Folklore.

Sociologist of the university

Mendieta Núñez will also be interested there in the study of the university. He will study the social role of the sociologist, but also the figure of the university intellectual in his relation with work and the institution.

Recognitions

In recognition of its work of pioneer, the UNAM gave to a room the name of Lucio Mendieta there Núñez like at a price, the medal Mendieta there Núñez, rewarding a researcher in social sciences.

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