Women’s Committee as a social network to generate community participation: experience in Culiacán, Sinaloa Mexico

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the individual-collective motivations for the formation of a women's committee and how it becomes a social network to generate mechanisms of community participation in a neighborhood in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. From a qualitative approach and through the phenomenological method, the experience of seven women who make up the community committee was recovered, to whom a semi-structured interview was applied. The information retrieved was systematized for a conversational analysis in which the main categories were retrieved, such as the process of forming the community committee, processes of interaction, socialization, collaboration, and generation of mechanisms for community participation. The results show that women interact with institutional networks, establish mutual collaboration mechanisms and socialize through dialogue, generating individual transformations for their members but also in the community, having positive effects on the quality of collective life, strengthening the sense of community and concretizing mechanisms. of community participation.