Armando Garcia Chiang

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa México · Sociology Department

The development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Mexico during the last two decades is closely linked to the various initiatives within the business sector. The first organizations that were involved with CSR (in the second half of the decade of 1990) rose as a central objective to integrate the concept of CSR in the sphere of business....

In Mexico secularization is one of the two dominant topics in the analysis of religion and, as in the Western world, a small but influential group of researchers consider the loss of the centrality of religion as an inevitable constant. During the first two decades of this century the paradigm of secularization began to be questioned and the idea o...

Abstract Mexico’s 2008 energy reform established that Petróleos Mexicanos and its subsidiary entities could contract with individuals or corporate entities for labor and the provision of required services to improve the implementation of its activities. The reform has allowed private companies to become more involved in the process of oil extractio...

El presente artículo presenta los antecedentes y el desarrollo de los estudios que analizan los fenómenos religiosos en México. Con el fin de presentar una visión general del desarrollo de este tipo de trabajos, este papel está dividido en tres secciones. En la primera de ellas se hace una presentación de las disciplinas que abordan el estudio de l...

Este artículo muestra el panorama de los estudios sobre lo religioso en México, de la década de los ochenta hasta la actualidad. Su contenido está dividido en cuatro apartados: A) la Iglesia Católica, B) los protestantismos históricos, C) las sectas y grupos paracristianos, D) la pluralidad religiosa, los nuevos movimientos y el Islam. Asimismo, co...

The present article is about the Enterprise Petroleos Mexicanos' actions in the field of Social Responsibility. For the development of this, the work is divided in four parts. In the first one, is presented the background of the SRC. The following parts, describes the actions that Petroleos Mexicanos has taken, more precisely, its Subsidiary's orga...