INDEX

-GENERAL INFORMATION OF MEXICO (LOCATION,POPULATION,POLITICAL SYSTEM,ECONOMIC POWER….)

-TYPE OF SOCIETY: WHAT IS IT (RURAL,INDUSTRIAL,POST-INDUSTRIAL) …

-SOCIETY CHANGE :EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY (XIX. CENTURY,1950´S,TODAY)

-SOCIAL MOBILITY

-The president is the head of the state (Enrique Peña Nieto)-Government of mexico He is the Supreme Commander of the armed forces-the elections are on December 1 and they vote every 6 years

-The economy of Mexico is the 13th largest in the world

-11th according to the World Bank

-there is a very important bank in mexico and this is the director of that bank(mexico bank)

-since 1994 the crisis start……50% population fell in the poverty……but in 200417,6% = go done

-more URBAN than rural -They grow the cities in the center weren´t houses for all of them

-In 1990 70% urban

to work businesses, migrate seasonally to the cities.

Industrial production Main industries :automobile industry, petrochemicals, cement and construction …

• Reduce the birth rate.

• Less work in the interior of the country and will live to the central cities.

• Climate was favorable for human settlement

• It is also about the size of the territory

EVOLUTION OF MEXICO

Social mobility

-Encuesta ESRU 2006 very low special in poor people

-Depending to you family you can go up or down

…Is very dificult to go up in mexico expecialy if you have rural origins.

…example: if you have education is more easy for go up…but……a lot of people haven´t got money for the schools.

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