Bibliographical notes

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. (May 20, 2022). In Wikipedia. The free encyclopedia. https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfredo_Povi%C3%B1a&oldid=143672314