Defining Your Research: A Guide to Social Relevance

Defining Your Research Field

What aspects of reality will your research focus on? Avoid generic topics; instead, concentrate on specific dimensions within the context of your subject.

Tips for Delimiting Your Research Field:

  • Clearly state the reasons for choosing this specific area of social reality, defining key concepts.
  • Define the scope: What is included in your study, and what is excluded? What are the boundaries of your research?
  • Formulate a key problem: Identifying the core issue is crucial. For
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Understanding Politics, Power, and Citizen Participation

Understanding Politics and Power

Politics is popularly understood as the art of governing, a restricted role of the state. The term policy is used to indicate the performance of institutions or segments of society: economic policy, labor policy, environmental policy, education policy.

Politics is the activity that refers to the management of public good. Politics is the set of power relations in society.

Power refers to the power relations that individuals or social groups establish from their position

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Earth Systems, Economic Geography, and Global Development

Earth as a Natural/Physical Environmental System

Earth’s Position in Space

Earth orbits the sun at 67,000 mph, maintaining a delicate balance between gravity and velocity.

Life exists due to Earth’s stable distance from the sun, allowing liquid water and habitable temperatures.

Earth as an Energy/Matter System

All changes on Earth result from energy: inputs, storage, transformation, or outputs.

Two primary energy sources:

Solar Energy: Drives photosynthesis, weather, and food webs.

Internal Earth Energy:

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CCH School of Science and Humanities: Education at UNAM

CCH School of Science and Humanities

The CCH (Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades) School of Science and Humanities is one of the three systems offered by the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for upper secondary education. The others are the National Preparatory School and B@UNAM, which is the distance learning option for students in the United States and Canada.

Mission

The mission is based on the institutional model of the College of Sciences and Humanities’ educational action. Since its founding

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Social Contract, Democracy, and Liberalism: Core Concepts

Social Contract and General Will

The social contract is an agreement in which all individuals are subjected to a general will. All individuals must submit to the general will. The general will is the will of all people; it makes laws that must be applied to all equally, thus establishing the common good. The common good enables the welfare and happiness of citizens.

Governments are linked to the common good through different forms: monarchy (rule of one), aristocracy (the government of the best),

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Citizenship: Categories and Traditions

Categories to Consider for the Concept of Citizenship

In the constitution of the concept of citizenship, one must take into account both the historical genesis and the different models and categories that help us understand the different classes of citizenship:

1. Membership

Membership expresses the formal status of belonging to a political community. This community may be the nation-state, a multinational state, or a cosmopolitan world state. It depends on the rights and duties that each community

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