A new approach to research programs on violence in Mexico

Abstract

This article describes the main achievements of sociology and anthropology on violence in our country, based on documents published in journals considered as exemplary, and recently published books that offer innovative points of view on this object of knowledge. To this end, it refers to research programmes in which the authors used in this article participate, based on the idea that the texts are indications of sets of hypotheses that are part of the progress of these programmes. Since this article only analyses the theoretical-methodological content of the published articles, it refrains from making assumptions about the context of discovery and the socio-technical factors that made their scientific achievements possible (Swedberg, 2014; Latour and Wolgar, 1979). Under these circumstances, he classifies the articles in the sample based on the contributions to the construction of violence as an object and the practical solutions derived from them that anthropologists and sociologists offer as experts to confront the types and degrees of violence in Mexican society. Together, these authors construct a sense of violence as a social fact that is objectified in the scientific communities to which they belong, and they show us the path that can be followed in the development of our disciplines in our research centres.