%0 Journal Article %T La Naci¨®n, categor¨ªa para el an¨¢lisis de las transformaciones en los proyectos de integraci¨®n estatales: el caso de los libros de texto gratuitos %A Vargas Escobar %A Natalia %J Sociol¨®gica (M¨¦xico) %D 2011 %I UAM, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Divisi¨®n de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades %X this article proposes a re-conceptualization of the category "nation" to affirm it as a concept for sociological explanation, framed among the terms in which historic models of integration of the whole of society established by the operation of a state are defined. the author analyzes the version of the mexican nation presented in three free national history textbooks published under three different federal administrations. her aim is to identify the divergences and overlaps in the texts to trace state actions oriented to updating the terms in which membership in the political community is defined. %K nation-state %K political integration %K primary education %K textbooks %K history of mexico. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0187-01732011000300004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en