Modernization, Democracy and Social Classes - Gino Germani and Latin American Sociology

Offering a fresh perspective, this book seeks to strengthen a better reflection on the history of sociology and social sciences in Latin America, through a reconstruction of the content and context of Gino Germani's enormous production and its legacies and legitimacies.

List of contents

Preface - Gino Germani: Explorer of transitions
Introduction
1. Politics and Culture: the anti-fascist commitment of Gino Germani (1930-1945)
2. The Return of the Self. New Constellations for Gino Germani's Sociology
3. Gino Germani's sociology in the context of accelerated change in the university. An unfinished balance
4. Sociological knowledge in Latin America. Instrumentalization and critical thought in Gino Germani¿s ideas
5. The Committed Intellectual: Gino Germani and Totalitarianism as a Reading Key
6. Democracy and Authoritarianism in Gino Germani
7. The Legacy of Gino Germani in Class Analysis
8. Citations in Context: References to Gino Germani's Work in the Web of Science (1956-2024)
Conclusions

About the author

Martín Unzué, PhD is Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata and Quilmes. Director of the Gino Germani Research Institute (UBA). He has worked on the return of the Gino Germani documentary collection to the UBA. His last book is about the history of the University of Buenos Aires since 1955 (Profesores, científicos e intelectuales. La UBA de 1955 a su Bicentenario).
Diego Ezequiel Pereyra PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Public Policies, National University of Lanús. His area of research is the history of sociology and sociological traditions as a field of intersection among intellectual history, political sociology and sociology of education. He is an Independent Researcher at CONICET, based at the Gino Germani Research Institute, University of Buenos Aires.

Product details

• Authors: Martin (University of Buenos Aires Unzue
• Assisted by: Diego Ezequiel Pereyra (Editor), Martín Unzué (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032847740
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284774-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Classic and Contemporary Latin American Social Theory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Hispanic & Latino Studies