Estudios Fronterizos (Jan 1996)

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

  • Rafael Arriaga Martínez

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 37-38
pp. 177 – 223

Abstract

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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.

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