1st Edition
Modernization, Democracy and Social Classes Gino Germani and Latin American Sociology
Preface - Gino Germani: Explorer of Transitions
Adrián Scribano
Introduction
Martín Unzué and Diego Ezequiel Pereyra
1. Politics and Culture: The Anti-fascist Commitment of Gino Germani (1930-1945)
Eugenia Scarzanella
2. The Return of the Self. New Constellations for Gino Germani’s Sociology
Ana Grondona and Juan Ignacio Trovero
3. Gino Germani's Sociology in the Context of Accelerated Change in the University. An unfinished Balance
Martín Unzué
4. Sociological Knowledge in Latin America. Instrumentalization and Critical Thought in Gino Germani´s Ideas
Diego Ezequiel Pereyra
5. The Committed Intellectual: Gino Germani and Totalitarianism as a Reading Key
Martín Vicente and Sergio Daniel Morresi
6. Democracy and Authoritarianism in Gino Germani
Pasquale Serra
7. The Legacy of Gino Germani in Class Analysis
Pablo Dalle, Paula Boniolo and Ruth Sautu
8. Citations in Context: References to Gino Germani's Work in the Web of Science (1956-2024)
Antonio Brasil Jr.
Conclusions
Martín Unzué and Diego Ezequiel Pereyra
Biography
Martín Unzué, PhD is a professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata and Quilmes, Argentina and the Director of the Gino Germani Research Institute, University of Buenos Aires (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 an associate professor in the Department of Planning and Public Policies, National University of Lanús, Argentina. 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, Universities of Buenos Aires.
