Research
Research is the most important function of EL COLEGIO MEXIQUENSE, and it is the main task of the centres and interdisciplinary programmes.
Centre of Studies
- Centre for Social and Spatial Studies and Public Policies
- Centre for Social Studies
- Centre for Historical Studies
CENTRE OF STUDIES
The research lines and fields are divided as follows:
- Centre for Social and Spatial Studies and Public Policies
The researchers of this centre are interested in the following subjects: Municipal development: management, public services and local finances.
- Public policies:
- social policy and poverty;
- welfare policies:
- adult education policies:
- industrial and spatial localisation policies;
- territorial order and institutional change policies;
- urban land policies and territorial regularisation.
- Social and spatial studies:
- distribution of population and regional inequalities:
- urban processes,
- metropolitan conformation,
- localisation of economical activities,
- land markets and housing in cities.
EL COLEGIO MEXIQUENSE is the seat of the Mexican Network of Cities towards Sustainability (Red Mexicana de Ciudades hacia la Sustentabilidad).
- Public policies:
- Centre for Social Studies
This centre has three main areas: education, population and society and culture, whose research lines are:
- Philosophy of education, history of education and informal education.
- Work force.
- Demographic change.
- Youth and population.
- Historical demography.
- International migration.
- Work, family and every day life.
- Environmental perceptions and emigration.
- Socioeconomic forms, ritual and cosmic vision.
- Indigenous people, water and society.
- Centre for Historical Studies
This research area has the task of studying and spreading the history of the municipalities, the state and the nation. Its research lines are:
- Economical and social history.
- History of education.
- Pre-hispanic, colonial, modern and contemporary history.
- Historical bibliography.
- Study, translation and publication of pictographical sources and indigenous prose, such as pre-hispanic and colonial codices.