Instituto de Matematicas Aplicadas y Sistemas
Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Ciudad
Universitaria
Delegacion
Alvaron Obregon
Ap.
Postal 20-726
Mexico
DF 01000
Phone:
(52-5) 622-35-94
Email:
larissa@servidor.unam.mx
Professor Larissa
Adler-Lomnitz, sociologist, University of Mexico, Mexico
(Ph.D. in Sociology from
University of Ibero-American, 1974)
Larissa Lomnitz has written seven books in Spanish;
five of them have been translated into English. In most of them, she deals with
network analysis. Her first book (Como
sobreviven los marginado), published in 1974, has had 15 editions. In
English its tittle is Networks and
Marginality, and it is about the urban poor in Mexico and their survival
mechanisms through social networks. After that, together with Marisol
Perez-Lizaur, she wrote An Elite Family
of Mexico, published by Princeton University Press. It is about a family
enterprise, kinship structure and social networks in the process of
industrialization in Mexico. For some years she studied at the National
University of Mexico in order to study the Mexican middle class and wrote two
books and several papers on it. The books are Becoming a Scientist in Mexico, and La Nueva Clase en Mexico: el caso de los veterinarios. After that
she did some field-wok in Chile and wrote The
Chilean Middle Class and its Struggle for Survival in Face of Neo-Liberalism.
Through studying politics at the university she became interested in political
anthropology and "the New Class". As a result, she wrote several
papers which are included in a book called Redess
sociales, cultura y poder and a book,
Chilean Political Culture and its Parties, first published in Spanish and
then in English. She is full professor at the National University of Mexico
(Institute of Applied mathematics), and has been invited to teach and give
seminars at various universities such as Columbia, The University of Chicago,
The American University; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Wissenschaftskollegg at Berlin, the University of Notre Dame, and the
University of Paris 3. In 1997, she was appointed an Honorary Doctor by the
University of Mass. (Amherst) "for her distinguished contributions to
Latin America's social science".