Sociology in Marx's work
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Sociological theory , Hegel , Mondolfo, sociology, MarkAbstract
To whom does that venerable beard of ancient deity belong? asks Anatole France to Voltaire in the dialogue between the immortals, in the garden of the regions of the intellect. And Voltaire answers: it belongs to the Socrates of the barricades, to Karl Marx, who has written a terrible book to prove that the strong abuse the weak. What a new discovery! exclaims Voltaire, and after making him explain his theories, he tells him that all this is very abstract, and gives me a slight headache. Perhaps you would like to give us some examples? Marx answers: with pleasure. I will redo the whole history of mankind from the point of view of my theory. And in fact he was able to do it successfully, because his system is valid in the three fundamental strata of collective life, by application of its: essential parts.
Lecture delivered at the Institute of Humanities of the National University of Córdoba, on August 14, 1942.
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Alfredo Poviña, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Alfredo Poviña (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1904 - 1986). Argentine sociologist considered one of the main exponents and practitioners of Latin American sociology.
D. from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Cordoba in 1930 with his thesis Sociology of the Revolution. Since that year professor of sociology at the same faculty. Between 1939 and 1943 he directs the Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. In 1939 he was appointed assistant professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires and in 1948 full professor of that chair until 1952. Dean of the aforementioned faculty between 1962-1967 and 1977-1982.
He held the chair of Sociology at the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences and of Philosophy and Humanities of the National University of Córdoba between 1955-1970. He was a professor at the National University of Tucumán and in other high centers of study in America. Member and president of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Córdoba (1974-1984).
He was also the founder of the Argentine Academy of Sociology and the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS) and its first president between 1951-1964. He was also President of the International Institute of Sociology (1963-1969).
Poviña attempted a quite successful synthesis of the conceptual historicism of Max Weber with the inductive sociology of Émile Durkheim.
Reference
Alfredo Poviña (20 de may de 2022). On Wikipedia. https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfredo_Povi%C3%B1a&oldid=143672314
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