Sociology, democratic planning and middle classes. A study on social modernization and state building in Argentina (1946- 1963)

“Sociology, democratic planning and middle classes. A study on social modernization and state building in Argentina (1946- 1963)”

This essay reflects upon the complex relationship between sociology and state, in a time sociologists in Argentina were perceived as actors able to promote social change and (due to both their technical expertise and ability to fully understand modernity and rationalization process) they were as well pointed as truthfully guiders to democratic planning. Hence, this paper seeks to explore the role of local sociologists in the definition of state planning in Argentina from middle 1940s to 1963, when democracy and industrialization found several obstacles but sociology offered a promissory future.