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Sociology in Ecuador

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Authors:
  1. Philipp Altmann

    1. Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central University of Ecuador Avenida América, Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador

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  • Presents the first comprehensive history of academic sociology in Ecuador
  • Lends insights into the development of the social sciences in the Global South
  • Engages with debates on Southern Theory, Eurocentrism, translation and localization of ideas, and institutionalism

Part of the book series: Sociology Transformed (SOTR)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Philipp Altmann
    Pages 1-12

  3. The First Sociology in Ecuador

    • Philipp Altmann
    Pages 13-66

  4. The Failed Attempt to Modernize Sociology from the Late 1940s

    • Philipp Altmann
    Pages 67-93

  5. Critical Sociology

    • Philipp Altmann
    Pages 95-156

  6. Conclusions

    • Philipp Altmann
    Pages 157-162

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 163-164
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About this book

This Palgrave Pivot presents a concise yet comprehensive history of sociology in Ecuador. The case of Ecuador is especially interesting, as Ecuadorian sociology oscillated between theoretical debates—some of them out of time—and a constant search for ways of applying them to the local reality. In the decades after its formal creation in 1915, early academic sociology in Ecuador worked creatively with already outdated theories around positivism and organicism to understand the indigenous population's position, the regional fragmentation, and the formation of a coherent nation-state in Ecuador. After a short attempt of installing a more technical sociology in the 1960s, those topics were taken up and re-read by Marxist-inspired critical sociology after the 1970s, leading to the nation-wide institutionalization of one particular tradition that could connect to continental debates. This book engages with several relevant debates in social sciences and humanities, particularly by adding tothe thriving research on social sciences and the role of the university and higher education in Latin America. Furthermore, it touches some recently influential topics in sociology: Ecuadorian sociology can be read as Southern Theory or engaged with from a postcolonial or decolonial perspective; the research on how ideas travel, are diffused or localized is vital for understanding sociology in Ecuador; the relation between academia and politics; and more.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central University of Ecuador Avenida América, Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador

    Philipp Altmann

About the author

Philipp Altmann is Professor Titular for Sociological Theory at the Universidad Central del Ecuador. He works on how ideas spread, on the intersection of discourse analysis, history of concepts, and sociology of knowledge. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociology in Ecuador

  • Authors: Philipp Altmann

  • Series Title: Sociology Transformed

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14429-5

  • 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: 978-3-031-14428-8Published: 25 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14429-5Published: 23 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5023

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5031

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 164

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

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