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In this paper we analyze the development of the social sciences during the last dictatorship, through the study of the magazine called Sociológica. Revista Argentina de Ciencias Sociales, published with subsidies from CONICET, whose first issue came out in 1978 and the last in 1984. It was led by the sociologist Roberto José Brie, who was a member of CONICET's advisory committees, a member of the Directorio in 1981 and director of an Institute of social science (ICIS). Throughout these pages, we will present the professional profile of Brie and its links with the Catholic right and anti-Communist circles; We will describe the CONICET institutes belonging to the area of social and human sciences and cases of corruption that wrapped Brie; We will mention what were the different sections of the magazine: articles, reviews and bibliographical notes, and other magazines. We will then summarize the content of 160 research projects selected Brie as part of an investigation compared internationally funded by Unesco. Finally, we briefly consider what were the principal investigators, subjects and independent academic centers that continued to develop research in the area of social sciences and who were out of Sociológica.

French structuralism embodies an important theoretical code in the Argentinean ’60s and early ‘70s. Although it mainly circulated outside university, in this paper we intend to explore an early attempt at academic reception operated by Eliseo Verón through the pages of the review he published, Cuestiones de Filosofía, and also in the important courses he gave, for example Sociología Sistemática. We will ty to depict this attempt as an answer to the peculiar context of discussions regarding to the practice of social sciences in Argentina, particularly in the Department of Sociology.