03683nam 22005895 450 991063247910332120251009102832.09783031144295(electronic bk.)978303114428810.1007/978-3-031-14429-5(MiAaPQ)EBC7145549(Au-PeEL)EBL7145549(CKB)25456395600041(DE-He213)978-3-031-14429-5(EXLCZ)992545639560004120221123d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSociology in Ecuador /by Philipp Altmann1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (170 pages)Sociology Transformed,2947-5031Print version: Altmann, Philipp Sociology in Ecuador Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031144288 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. The first sociology in Ecuador -- 3. The failed attempt to modernize sociology from the 1940s -- 4. Critical Sociology -- 5. Conclusions.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 In the decades after its formal creation in 1915, early academic sociology in Ecuador worked creatively with already outdated theories around positivism and organicism to understand the indigenous population's position, the regional fragmentation, and the formation of a coherent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. 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. .Sociology Transformed,2947-5031SociologyHistorySociologyLatin AmericaHistoryHistory of SociologySociological TheoryLatin American HistorySociologyHistory.Sociology.Latin AmericaHistory.History of Sociology.Sociological Theory.Latin American History.986.6301.09866Altmann Philipp916886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910632479103321Sociology in Ecuador2982383UNINA