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History of Sociology in Chile

Trajectories, Discontinuities, and Projections

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  1. Juan Jesús Morales Martín

    1. Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile

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  2. Justino Gómez de Benito

    1. Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile

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  • Provides a comprehensive overview of the rich and diverse tradition of social thought in Chile over the last century
  • Framed within Chile’s cultural, economic, historical, social and political experience
  • Emphasizes the close relationship between sociology and society

Part of the book series: Sociology Transformed (SOTR)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: Society and Sociology in Chile

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 1-12

  3. From “Armchair” to “Scientific” Sociology (1948–1958)

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 13-32

  4. Sociology: From Scientific to Its Radicalization (1958–1973)

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 33-62

  5. Breakdown, Crisis, Prosecution, and Refoundation of Sociology Under Civic–Military Dictatorship (1973–1990)

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 63-97

  6. Democratic Recovery and the New Scene for the Academic and Professional Exercise of Sociology (1990–2010)

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 99-130

  7. The Return of Society in the Twenty-First Century (2011–2021)

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 131-159

  8. Conclusions: A Plural Sociology for a Diverse Society

    • Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito
    Pages 161-169

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 171-179
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the rich and diverse tradition of social thought in Chile over the last century. The authors emphasize the close relationship between sociology and society, and address large issues such as the institutionalization of sociology in the face of an open modernization process following WWII, the key role played by Chile in the regionalization and internationalization of sociology and social sciences in Latin America from the late 1950s until the 1973 Coup d'état, and the radicalization of sociology and the boom of dependency theories during that time. The analysis extends to independent academic centers that kept sociological thought, social intervention and the democratic dream alive within an authoritarian context, and the role of academic and professional sociology since the return to democracy, which has been attentive to accompanying and interpreting the development of a changing Chilean society. 



Framed within the country's cultural, economic, historical, social and political experience, this overview of the debates, dissemination, networks, and educational programs associated with sociology, will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American studies and historical sociology. 




Reviews

“This book offers a comprehensive view of the past one hundred years of Chilean sociology rooted in the unique historical and academic context from which it emerged.    Each phase of development of the discipline is examined from a sociological framework, interpreting its social, political, and economic contexts. These interpretations are then translated from different perspectives into concrete actions to modernize, develop and improve society. A fundamental feature is the influence of both European and Latin American academics whose tendencies, theoretical paradigms, and methodology on academic debate, created and expanded the discipline. The dictatorship created stagnation in the country and was followed by a phase grounded in a renewed social context that debated more current topics such as the body, as seen through gender, health, and race relations. Further examinations of the technological changes to labour and the climate crisis will lead to emerging fields such as the sociology of time”. -PhD. María Eugenia Valenzuela Mejías, former professor of Sociology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

“Juan Jesús Morales Martín and Justino Gómez de Benito give us this much needed book on the history of Chilean sociology, from its beginning in the late nineteenth century to present day, discussing its sites of production, the main debates and its links with social transformations. This is indeed a long overdue work, that fills the gap in the literature about the last decades in which sociology has played a role in reading the social movements and anticipating the trends of crisis of Chile’s exemplary neoliberal society. So, more than an history of sociology, this book composes a sociology of sociology, in which teaching and research is eventually intertwined with the notable increase in the critical capacities to transform Chilean society. A must read”. -PhD. Nicolas Fleet, professor of Sociology in Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago, Chile. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile

    Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito

About the authors

Juan Jesús Morales Martín is Professor and Researcher in the Sociology School at the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile. In 2018, he edited the book Filantropía, ciencia y universidad: nuevos aportes y análisis sociohistóricos sobre la diplomacia académica en América Latina [Philanthropy, Science, and University: New Approaches and Socio-Historical Analysis on Academic Diplomacy in Latin America].

Justino Gómez de Benito is Professor in the Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile, and he was head of the Sociology School between 1999 and 2013. He is author of Más allá del oficio de sociólogo [Beyond the Craft of Sociology], which focuses on identity changes in the sociological field. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: History of Sociology in Chile

  • Book Subtitle: Trajectories, Discontinuities, and Projections

  • Authors: Juan Jesús Morales Martín, Justino Gómez de Benito

  • Series Title: Sociology Transformed

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10481-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10480-0Published: 27 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10483-1Published: 28 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10481-7Published: 26 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5023

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5031

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 179

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Latin American History, Sociological Theory, Social Sciences, general

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