Gabriel Careaga Medina

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Gabriel Careaga Medina (15 June 1941 – 12 January 2004) was a sociologist, academic, and essayist. His fields of interest were politics and society in Mexico. He studied sociology at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and later earned a master's degree in economics at the College of Mexico. He was a professor on the faculty of Science, Politics, and Society at UNAM for three decades. He died of cancer at the age of 62.^[1]

Career

Medina edited Spanish-language periodicals, such as, El Universal, Revista de Bellas Artes, Revista Mexicana de Cultura, La Guía, Revista de revistas, La Cultura, and Uno más uno. His work in sociology followed three themes: intellectuals and their relationship to politics, economic development and modernization, and the middle class and urban life.^[1]

Works

Medina authored the following publications, all in Spanish:^[1]

Biografía de un joven de la clase media
Sociedad y teatro moderno en México
Erotismo, violencia y política en el cine
Estrellas de cine: los mitos del siglo XX
Los espejismos del desarrollo: entre la utopía y el progreso
Los intelectuales y la política en México
Los intelectuales y el poder
El siglo desgarrado
Crisis de la razón y de la modernidad
La ciudad emmascarada y Cuba, el fin de una utopía

Death

Medina died of cancer on 12 January 2004.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "2004: Muere Gabriel Careaga, importante sociólogo y académico mexicano". El Siglo de Durango (in Spanish). 12 January 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
^ "Falleció Gabriel Careaga". La Jornada (in Spanish). 15 January 2004. Retrieved 5 November 2018.