Abstract

BLANCO, Alejandro. La temprana recepción de Max Weber en la sociología argentina (1930-1950). Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2007, vol.15, n.30, pp.9-38. ISSN 0188-7653.

Max Weber's thought was known in Argentina's scholarly milieu in the years preceding the first translations into Spanish of his works, Historia Económica General and Economía y Sociedad, both edited by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 1942 and 1944 respectively. The first references to Weber 's oeuvre appeared at the beginning of the '30s in an intellectual context characterized by the revolt against positivism and the diffusion of German thinking in general, and its sociological thinking, in particular. During that period, sociology was an emerging field and sociologists faced the task of justifying their practice and kinds of approach. Nevertheless, there were different views of the discipline each of which articulating a specific interpretation of Weber 's contribution. Given this situation, we may wonder, who was Weber for argentine readers? Which themes of his vast work were selected in the context of local intellectual concerns? In sum, this paper explores the different interpretations of Max Weber ideas showing how these became articulated with the different conceptions of the discipline struggling for supremacy in a given, still incipient, disciplinary field.

Keywords : sociology; reception; Max Weber; interpretation.

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