Gino Germani (Session 3)

Gino Germani was an Italian sociology that was born in 1911. In his first years he formed in economy, but left that at the age of nineteen years old because was exiled by Mussolini’s fascist regime. At 1934 he came to Argentina, and begins to study philosophy in the University of Buenos Aires. Years later, Germani started to study the Argentina’s society, and created the first sociology career in all Latin America. He wrote five books in Spanish; Social structure of Argentina (1955), Studies of Social Psychology (1956), the sociology in Latin America (1964), Politics and society in a time of transition (1965) and Sociology of modernization (1971). In addition, he wrote two more books on Italian and one on French.

Germani cared about studying the phenomenon of populism in Latin America and the comparison between the social processes in Argentina and Europe (He focused his studio in the Peronism in Argentina, and his relation with the Italian Fascism). I like this author because is the founder of the sociology in Latin America, and I knew about he because of a seminary of Latin American sociology that I assist the last year at the university).

Gino Germani died in 1979