Oscar A Martínez‐martínez
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar A Martínez‐martínez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar A |
| FAMILY NAME | Martínez‐martínez |
| SIGNATURE | MARTÍNEZ O A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ibero American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4103-674X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The architecture of social well-being: The interactions between objective and subjective indicators
Although recent multidimensional approaches have sought to expand the measurement of well-being beyond material aspects, few studies have simultaneously examined the interactions between objective, subjective, and community dimensions within a unified framework of social well-being in an urban context. This study addresses this gap by empirically analyzing how these three dimensions jointly shape household well-being in Mexico City. Data were obt…
Social well-being under pressure: Structural inequities in early childhood in Mexico City
Introduction: Although progress has been made in measuring social wellbeing, limited evidence exists on its structure in households with young children living in contexts of structural inequality. This study asks: Which indicators most strongly shape social wellbeing in early childhood households? Methods: distance methodology, a multidimensional index construction technique that integrates objective and subjective indicators to compare the socia…
Bearded, Mustached, and Hairy, but Looking Pretty. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Biopolitics and Normative Femininity
The Structure of Social Well-Being in Indigenous Communities of Oaxaca: Coexistence and Interdependence Between Conventional Dimensions and Ontological Aspects
Death from Covid-19 in contexts of social deprivation in Mexico
Introduction: Poverty is one of the macro factors that has been little studied in terms of its effect on death from COVID-19 since most studies have focused only on investigating whether the pandemic increased poverty or not. With that on mind, the present study aims to analyze how the social deprivations that comprise the measurement of municipal poverty in interaction with health comorbidities and sociodemographic characteristics, increased the…
Labor markets during Covid-19: Gaps and challenges in Latin America
The findings emphasized the precarious situation of women in the region, regardless of the country, particularly in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. These findings suggest the need to design public policies that reverse the current situation of the labor market and prevent future economic shocks, with special emphasis on the informal sector and women
Covid‐19 and its effect on formal employment in Mexico: Are there signs of recovery
The conditions of the Mexican labor market during the Covid‐19 pandemic went through different stages. The government first declared a quarantine that lasted for several months, the effects of which continue to be quantified. In that sense, this article answers two questions, (1) what are the changes in labor formality rates before and 2 years after the Covid‐19 pandemic began in Mexico?; and (2) are there differences in economic sectors and betw…
Food insecurity and levels of marginalization: Food accessibility, consumption and concern in Mexico
Conclusive remarks drawn from our analysis underline the importance of the context of marginalization in influencing households' experiences with food insecurity. At the quincena's end, food insecurity increases, even in contexts of very low marginalization. Our study calls for rethinking the scales employed to measure food insecurity, specifically the questions related to fear of food scarcity. Coping strategies are implemented by surveyed indiv…
The multidimensionality of social wellbeing: Interactions from the individual to the collective level in large cities
This paper responds to two questions-What dimensions and indicators are relevant to the construction of social wellbeing? How are the levels of wellbeing distributed in the municipalities of Mexico City? To answer these questions, we use data from the Wellbeing Survey ( N = 2,871) that is representative of Mexico City and its municipalities. We employed two methods, DM-R distances, and Mamdani's Fuzzy Inference Method. The results show that all t…
Beyond multidimensional poverty: Challenges of measurement and its link with social policy in Mexico
Purpose Comprehensive poverty measures are increasingly gaining importance since people's deprivations and needs cover aspects beyond income. For this reason, the goal of this article is to propose a methodology to measure poverty that includes objective social deprivation, income deprivation and subjective social deprivation, using Mexico City and its municipalities as the study context. In order to show areas of intervention of public policies,…
Food Well-Being in Older Adults: Effects of a Universal Non-contributory Pension in Mexico
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 1
Compared to affluent consumers, the consumption practices of poor and low-income consumers have received less attention in the global North, where they have been marginalized as flawed.This paper hopes to address this neglect by providing an exploratory profile of poor and low-income consumers in the United States.It will challenge that these consumers are flawed by explaining how they participate in consumer society via exploitative inclusion an…
Effect of comorbidities and risk conditions on death from Covid-19 in migrants in Mexico
In contrast to preceding studies with native-born populations with COVID-19, where pre-existing diseases aggravated the diagnosis of COVID-19 and sometimes led to death, in the case of migrants, only pneumonia was the significant comorbidity associated with mortality among migrants diagnosed with COVID-19
The Social Construction of Happiness: A Mixed-Methods Research Study in Mexico
This study analyzes how happiness is built in Mexico in a context of concentrated poverty. The study uses a mixed-methods approach and incorporates two techniques of data analysis. The first analysis employs an ordinal logistic model with data from the Self-Report Well-being Survey (N=44,518), while the second draws upon semi-structured interviews in four Mexican states (N=247). The results show that six important categories influence the level o…
A qualitative analysis of factors that influence cultural participation in Mexico: Implications of Individual, Social, and Contextual Factors
Vulnerability in health and social capital: A qualitative analysis by levels of marginalization in Mexico
Participants reported low levels of trust in the health care system because of the poor infrastructure and quality of medical service delivery. Although the main criticism is focused on public healthcare institutions, there is a lack of trust in private medical services as well. These facts are related to the access and quality of medical service delivery and turn social capital into a significant asset. Despite that social bonds or links are val…
Barriers to Disability Inclusion: Social Needs and Discrimination in Mexico
El artículo tiene como objetivo identificar las barreras a las que se enfrentan las personas con discapacidad, tanto en su vida diaria como en su entorno. Usando datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Discriminación 2017, aplicamos un modelo de regresión logit multinomial. Nuestros resultados revelan que las personas en situación de discapacidad tienen menos probabilidades de acceder a servicios sociales y oportunidades educativas y de participar plena…
Reconfiguring Social Policy from the “Left” in Mexico: So Far, Not so Good
The Structure of Social Cohesion: An Analysis of Its Levels and Dimensions in Mexico City 1
This article aims to conceptualize and assess social cohesion in Mexico, taking into account their multilevel and multidimensional nature. To measure social cohesion levels and dimensions, we used the Social Welfare Survey (N = 2871) for the 16 municipalities in Mexico City. Then, we employed the distance method to construct a social cohesion index. In addition, we define social cohesion degrees (very high, high, medium, and low) to explore the r…
Validation of a Multidimensional Social Cohesion Scale: A Case in Urban Areas of Mexico
People have been interested in social cohesion and its implications in different areas of social life from the classic sociology authors until today. Besides its multidimensional nature, this complex construct also faces the issue of measurement. For this reason, the objective of this article is to adapt and validate a scale that measures in a multidimensional way social cohesion for urban areas. The results obtained through Cronbach's α coeffici…
La marginación social y la perspectiva de la educación privada en México. Un estudio cualitativo
El artículo responde a tres incógnitas ¿qué percepción tienen sobre las escuelas privadas? ¿qué tanto influye el contexto en esta percepción sobre todo cuando es marginado? ¿Estudiar en una escuela pública o privada puede afectar el aprendizaje de los alumnos? Para responder a estás, se aplicaron entrevistas a profundidad, que fueron analizadas por los niveles de marginación de los entrevistados utilizando para ello la teoría fundamentada. Los re…
The effect of cash transfers from the PROSPERA programme (formerly Oportunidades) on poverty in urban households in Northeast Mexico
The paper presents the effects of Mexico’s conditioned cash-transfers programme (PROSPERA programme, formerly Oportunidades ) on household poverty in the Northeast urban areas. The estimate was calculated using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Index. We use three poverty lines (i.e. food, capability, and patrimonial poverty) which costs were established by the National Assessment Council of the Social Development Policy. The results show that, in the t…
Incorporating Public Insecurity Indicators: A New Approach to Measuring Social Welfare in Mexico
Rethinking the construction of welfare in M exico: Going beyond the economic measures
This study utilized a multidimensional measure of social welfare composed of 26 social indicators integrated in nine categories: education, employment and social protection, income, health, housing conditions , subjective wellbeing, social capital, use of technology , and culture and leisure to help understand social welfare in Mexico. We also compared the integrated measure with the Human Development Index. Estimation was performed using the met…
Descentralización, política social y ciudadanía. Un proceso en construcción
El artículo tiene como objetivo, analizar el proceso de descentralización defunciones y su vínculo con la implementación de los programas que orientan lapolítica social en México. El punto de partida es que la descentralización en teoría,asigna mayores atribuciones a los gobiernos tanto estatales como municipales,sin embargo, las condiciones financieras, operativas, técnicas, humanas, einstitucionales son adversas en estos niveles de gobierno par…
The effect of cash transfers from the PROSPERA programme (formerly Oportunidades) on poverty in urban households in Northeast Mexico
The paper presents the effects of Mexico’s conditioned cash-transfers programme (PROSPERA programme, formerly Oportunidades ) on household poverty in the Northeast urban areas. The estimate was calculated using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Index. We use three poverty lines (i.e. food, capability, and patrimonial poverty) which costs were established by the National Assessment Council of the Social Development Policy. The results show that, in the t…
Incorporating Public Insecurity Indicators: A New Approach to Measuring Social Welfare in Mexico
Rethinking the construction of welfare in M exico: Going beyond the economic measures
This study utilized a multidimensional measure of social welfare composed of 26 social indicators integrated in nine categories: education, employment and social protection, income, health, housing conditions , subjective wellbeing, social capital, use of technology , and culture and leisure to help understand social welfare in Mexico. We also compared the integrated measure with the Human Development Index. Estimation was performed using the met…
A qualitative analysis of factors that influence cultural participation in Mexico: Implications of Individual, Social, and Contextual Factors
Reconfiguring Social Policy from the “Left” in Mexico: So Far, Not so Good
Efectos de las becas educativas del programa Oportunidades sobre la asistencia escolar. El caso de la zona urbana del noreste de México
Conditional transfer programs (CCT), as Mexico’s Oportunidades, focus on three basic components: education, health and nutrition. In the former, one of its aims is to reduce truancy, which is generated in contexts of poverty by the employment of children, for this reason the economic resource given by the program seeks to increase school attendance. This study evaluated the impact of the program in reducing absence from school, using a Propensity…
Covid‐19 and its effect on formal employment in Mexico: Are there signs of recovery
The conditions of the Mexican labor market during the Covid‐19 pandemic went through different stages. The government first declared a quarantine that lasted for several months, the effects of which continue to be quantified. In that sense, this article answers two questions, (1) what are the changes in labor formality rates before and 2 years after the Covid‐19 pandemic began in Mexico?; and (2) are there differences in economic sectors and betw…
Food Well-Being in Older Adults: Effects of a Universal Non-contributory Pension in Mexico
The Structure of Social Cohesion: An Analysis of Its Levels and Dimensions in Mexico City 1
This article aims to conceptualize and assess social cohesion in Mexico, taking into account their multilevel and multidimensional nature. To measure social cohesion levels and dimensions, we used the Social Welfare Survey (N = 2871) for the 16 municipalities in Mexico City. Then, we employed the distance method to construct a social cohesion index. In addition, we define social cohesion degrees (very high, high, medium, and low) to explore the r…
Efectos de las becas educativas del programa Oportunidades sobre la asistencia escolar. El caso de la zona urbana del noreste de México
Conditional transfer programs (CCT), as Mexico’s Oportunidades, focus on three basic components: education, health and nutrition. In the former, one of its aims is to reduce truancy, which is generated in contexts of poverty by the employment of children, for this reason the economic resource given by the program seeks to increase school attendance. This study evaluated the impact of the program in reducing absence from school, using a Propensity…
Descentralización, política social y ciudadanía. Un proceso en construcción
El artículo tiene como objetivo, analizar el proceso de descentralización defunciones y su vínculo con la implementación de los programas que orientan lapolítica social en México. El punto de partida es que la descentralización en teoría,asigna mayores atribuciones a los gobiernos tanto estatales como municipales,sin embargo, las condiciones financieras, operativas, técnicas, humanas, einstitucionales son adversas en estos niveles de gobierno par…
Rethinking the construction of welfare in M exico: Going beyond the economic measures
This study utilized a multidimensional measure of social welfare composed of 26 social indicators integrated in nine categories: education, employment and social protection, income, health, housing conditions , subjective wellbeing, social capital, use of technology , and culture and leisure to help understand social welfare in Mexico. We also compared the integrated measure with the Human Development Index. Estimation was performed using the met…
Incorporating Public Insecurity Indicators: A New Approach to Measuring Social Welfare in Mexico
La marginación social y la perspectiva de la educación privada en México. Un estudio cualitativo
El artículo responde a tres incógnitas ¿qué percepción tienen sobre las escuelas privadas? ¿qué tanto influye el contexto en esta percepción sobre todo cuando es marginado? ¿Estudiar en una escuela pública o privada puede afectar el aprendizaje de los alumnos? Para responder a estás, se aplicaron entrevistas a profundidad, que fueron analizadas por los niveles de marginación de los entrevistados utilizando para ello la teoría fundamentada. Los re…
The effect of cash transfers from the PROSPERA programme (formerly Oportunidades) on poverty in urban households in Northeast Mexico
The paper presents the effects of Mexico’s conditioned cash-transfers programme (PROSPERA programme, formerly Oportunidades ) on household poverty in the Northeast urban areas. The estimate was calculated using the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Index. We use three poverty lines (i.e. food, capability, and patrimonial poverty) which costs were established by the National Assessment Council of the Social Development Policy. The results show that, in the t…
Vulnerability in health and social capital: A qualitative analysis by levels of marginalization in Mexico
Participants reported low levels of trust in the health care system because of the poor infrastructure and quality of medical service delivery. Although the main criticism is focused on public healthcare institutions, there is a lack of trust in private medical services as well. These facts are related to the access and quality of medical service delivery and turn social capital into a significant asset. Despite that social bonds or links are val…
Barriers to Disability Inclusion: Social Needs and Discrimination in Mexico
El artículo tiene como objetivo identificar las barreras a las que se enfrentan las personas con discapacidad, tanto en su vida diaria como en su entorno. Usando datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Discriminación 2017, aplicamos un modelo de regresión logit multinomial. Nuestros resultados revelan que las personas en situación de discapacidad tienen menos probabilidades de acceder a servicios sociales y oportunidades educativas y de participar plena…
Reconfiguring Social Policy from the “Left” in Mexico: So Far, Not so Good
The Structure of Social Cohesion: An Analysis of Its Levels and Dimensions in Mexico City 1
This article aims to conceptualize and assess social cohesion in Mexico, taking into account their multilevel and multidimensional nature. To measure social cohesion levels and dimensions, we used the Social Welfare Survey (N = 2871) for the 16 municipalities in Mexico City. Then, we employed the distance method to construct a social cohesion index. In addition, we define social cohesion degrees (very high, high, medium, and low) to explore the r…
Validation of a Multidimensional Social Cohesion Scale: A Case in Urban Areas of Mexico
People have been interested in social cohesion and its implications in different areas of social life from the classic sociology authors until today. Besides its multidimensional nature, this complex construct also faces the issue of measurement. For this reason, the objective of this article is to adapt and validate a scale that measures in a multidimensional way social cohesion for urban areas. The results obtained through Cronbach's α coeffici…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 48, No. 1
Compared to affluent consumers, the consumption practices of poor and low-income consumers have received less attention in the global North, where they have been marginalized as flawed.This paper hopes to address this neglect by providing an exploratory profile of poor and low-income consumers in the United States.It will challenge that these consumers are flawed by explaining how they participate in consumer society via exploitative inclusion an…
Effect of comorbidities and risk conditions on death from Covid-19 in migrants in Mexico
In contrast to preceding studies with native-born populations with COVID-19, where pre-existing diseases aggravated the diagnosis of COVID-19 and sometimes led to death, in the case of migrants, only pneumonia was the significant comorbidity associated with mortality among migrants diagnosed with COVID-19
The Social Construction of Happiness: A Mixed-Methods Research Study in Mexico
This study analyzes how happiness is built in Mexico in a context of concentrated poverty. The study uses a mixed-methods approach and incorporates two techniques of data analysis. The first analysis employs an ordinal logistic model with data from the Self-Report Well-being Survey (N=44,518), while the second draws upon semi-structured interviews in four Mexican states (N=247). The results show that six important categories influence the level o…
A qualitative analysis of factors that influence cultural participation in Mexico: Implications of Individual, Social, and Contextual Factors
Beyond multidimensional poverty: Challenges of measurement and its link with social policy in Mexico
Purpose Comprehensive poverty measures are increasingly gaining importance since people's deprivations and needs cover aspects beyond income. For this reason, the goal of this article is to propose a methodology to measure poverty that includes objective social deprivation, income deprivation and subjective social deprivation, using Mexico City and its municipalities as the study context. In order to show areas of intervention of public policies,…
Food Well-Being in Older Adults: Effects of a Universal Non-contributory Pension in Mexico
Food insecurity and levels of marginalization: Food accessibility, consumption and concern in Mexico
Conclusive remarks drawn from our analysis underline the importance of the context of marginalization in influencing households' experiences with food insecurity. At the quincena's end, food insecurity increases, even in contexts of very low marginalization. Our study calls for rethinking the scales employed to measure food insecurity, specifically the questions related to fear of food scarcity. Coping strategies are implemented by surveyed indiv…
The multidimensionality of social wellbeing: Interactions from the individual to the collective level in large cities
This paper responds to two questions-What dimensions and indicators are relevant to the construction of social wellbeing? How are the levels of wellbeing distributed in the municipalities of Mexico City? To answer these questions, we use data from the Wellbeing Survey ( N = 2,871) that is representative of Mexico City and its municipalities. We employed two methods, DM-R distances, and Mamdani's Fuzzy Inference Method. The results show that all t…
Death from Covid-19 in contexts of social deprivation in Mexico
Introduction: Poverty is one of the macro factors that has been little studied in terms of its effect on death from COVID-19 since most studies have focused only on investigating whether the pandemic increased poverty or not. With that on mind, the present study aims to analyze how the social deprivations that comprise the measurement of municipal poverty in interaction with health comorbidities and sociodemographic characteristics, increased the…
Labor markets during Covid-19: Gaps and challenges in Latin America
The findings emphasized the precarious situation of women in the region, regardless of the country, particularly in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. These findings suggest the need to design public policies that reverse the current situation of the labor market and prevent future economic shocks, with special emphasis on the informal sector and women
Covid‐19 and its effect on formal employment in Mexico: Are there signs of recovery
The conditions of the Mexican labor market during the Covid‐19 pandemic went through different stages. The government first declared a quarantine that lasted for several months, the effects of which continue to be quantified. In that sense, this article answers two questions, (1) what are the changes in labor formality rates before and 2 years after the Covid‐19 pandemic began in Mexico?; and (2) are there differences in economic sectors and betw…
The architecture of social well-being: The interactions between objective and subjective indicators
Although recent multidimensional approaches have sought to expand the measurement of well-being beyond material aspects, few studies have simultaneously examined the interactions between objective, subjective, and community dimensions within a unified framework of social well-being in an urban context. This study addresses this gap by empirically analyzing how these three dimensions jointly shape household well-being in Mexico City. Data were obt…
Social well-being under pressure: Structural inequities in early childhood in Mexico City
Introduction: Although progress has been made in measuring social wellbeing, limited evidence exists on its structure in households with young children living in contexts of structural inequality. This study asks: Which indicators most strongly shape social wellbeing in early childhood households? Methods: distance methodology, a multidimensional index construction technique that integrates objective and subjective indicators to compare the socia…
Bearded, Mustached, and Hairy, but Looking Pretty. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Biopolitics and Normative Femininity
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Law (6 works)