The article deals with the popular concept of "achoramiento" as a mean of social ascension, and opposes it to that more classical of "arribismo" (social climbing). It claims that both concepts are a product of their historical and economical context: rigid, patriarchal and personalized, the first one (before 1970); convulsed and without norms the other (after 1970). It maintains, at the end, that the "arribismo-strategy" tums out to be inefficient to cope with the new problems due to migration and generalized social crisis, thus inducing social actors of all classes to behave themselves in a way the author calls "achorada", defined primarily as the type of behavior which recognizes neither norms nor authority.

This article introduces the concept of "achoramiento" to describe a certain type of personal and institutional behavior, which essentially consists of breaking existing social norms in order to obtain personal benefits in terms of power, prestige, and especially money. The main argument is that "achoramiento" is a vernacular concept which nonetheless disguises a more general attitude prevalent in Peru today, and which is activated by certain conditions inherent to the current neoliberal economic model: limited opportunities for legitimate social mobility, absence of legal and institutional accountability, and widespread transgression of existing social norms and legal rules (including the Constitution) by the most powerful social and political actors, including central government officials and public and private enterprises. The article concludes that "achoramiento" should be seen as an ...

This essay analyzes the corruption phenomenon occurred during the President Alberto Fujimori Regime. For this purpose, it uses the tentative hypothesis of "achoramiento", understood as a strategy to achieve social acceptation and upgrade that essentially violates ethnic and juridical norms. lt outlines the great bond and magnitude of these two phenomenons, both, products of the government's desire to monopolize control due to the corrupted political sphere, almost indeed a mafia, dominated an important part of Peruvian society.   lt specially focuses on the relationships of "achoramiento" that had the legal advisor of the Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional with a number of well-known businessmen who fell into the trap, to obtain economic and legal welfare. By using this, they lost their citizen condition and transformed in an added expression of social corruption in Peru. lt is well know...

El objetivo principal del presente trabajo fue investigar la relación entre el Bienestar Psicológico y Rendimiento Académico en estudiantes de la escuela de Tecnología Médica de una Universidad Privada de Lima-Perú. La población estudiada fue de 94 alumnos pre-grado (70 mujeres y 24 varones) del primer ciclo al séptimo ciclo académico. El enfoque de la investigación fue cuantitativo con muestreo no probabilístico, de diseño descriptivo-correlacional y corte transeccional. El instrumento de evaluación utilizado, la Escala de Bienestar Psicológico para Adultos propuesto por Casullo (2002) y la variable Rendimiento Académico requirió del historial académico semestral de cada alumno intervenido. Los objetivos específicos mostraron puntuaciones de Bienestar Psicológico aceptables entre los alumnos intervenidos y las sub-escalas del cuestionario BIEPS A: aceptación/control ...

Introducción: La determinación de glucosa en mujeres gestantes es muy importante en los controles que se realizan durante el periodo de gestación, esto permite que el médico tratante pueda prevenir que la gestante atraviese por un periodo de diabetes transitoria - diabetes gestacional- por ello es importante conocer cuál es el intervalo de referencia de glicemia en gestantes aparentemente sanas. El hospital debe manejar su propio intervalo de referencia de glicemia. Objetivos: Determinar los intervalos de referencia (IR) de glucosa en sangre de gestantes del Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolomé y Hospital de Chancay del departamento de Lima-Perú. Diseño: Estudio observacional – descriptivo, de corte transversal. Instituciones: Hospital Nacional Docente Madre Niño San Bartolomé y Hospital de Chancay y SBS. Participantes: Mujeres gestantes aparentemente sanas sin...