American organizations and the development of sociology and social research in Argentina. The case of the SSRC and the Rockefeller Foundation (1927-1966)

DIEGO PEREYRA

Research Reports online

Rockefeller Archive Center

Lugar: Sleepy Hollow, New York; Año: 2006 p. 1 - 24

"American organizations and the development of sociology and social research in Argentina. The case of the SSRC and the Rockefeller Foundation (1927-1966)”, Research Reports online, RAC, 2006 (archive.rockefeller.edu/ publications/resrep/pdf/pereyra.pdf) The archives of the Rockefeller Foundation and the SSRC provide useful information on the conflicting institutionalization of sociology as a discipline in Argentina and the establishment of international networks among local and foreign sociologists and institutions before, during and after the Peronist Era. Therefore, I will reconstruct in this paper the record of the activities of the SSRC, through the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies (JCLAS), and the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) in Argentina, trying to understand the role of both bodies in the promotion of sociological research in that country and their task in the organization of technical cooperation in the social sciences. This investigation could be articulated with my ongoing research about international networks in sociology. Hence, I could study the possible integration and competition among the American links and diverse international networks in sociology, such as the Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología (ALAS) [Latin American Sociological Association] or the International Sociological Association (ISA). Also, the data could illustrate the key role of Gino Germani in promoting the development of sociology in Argentina. I will then consider that information to reconstruct a possible profile of Germani from the logic and actions of the studied international networks.