Los estudios de sociología urbana en América Latina, un estado del arte: la situación en Argentina: 1957-1976

Abstract

The article deals with the emergence of urban sociology in Argentina between 1957 and 1976. Studies related to urban studies, professionals who were in charge of urban sociology and the theoretical profile with which they taught the discipline are studied. As far as possible, institutions and theoretical currents are placed with the respective theoretical, social and political scenario of the country. The period covers the profile of the studies carried out between 1957 and 1976, that is, from the formal birth of the Sociology career from the work of Gino Germani and the 1976 coup d'état and its influence on the closure of several institutions related to urban studies. It was carried out with in-depth interviews, institutional memories and reading of key texts of that period with methodology according to the treatment of that type of sources, such as the analysis of interviews and content.