De la ética católica a la ética de la pobreza: Hacia una tesis sobre las ideas y creencias religiosas como factor de rezago socioeconómico en la población mexicana de los Estados Unidos

Abstract

This article pretends to found a thesis which major preposition postulates the possibility to determine the influence in the ideas and religious beliefs in the economic behavior of Mexican residents in the United States. As a key concept in this discussion, in this case, religion is defined according to one ofthe corollarles of Max Weber' s vision aboilt religion: an ethic vehicJe capable of stoping or stimulating the social ascent of social groups. Therefore, around this two statements we concatenated a wide pan of theorical, conceptual and methodological basis of this work.

Keywords

• Discriminación racial
• Desempleo
• Práctica religiosa e identidad étnica