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This article approaches the historical development of the field of migratory studies in Argentina and makes a review of the academic production around the so - called "migratory policies." The systematization of these studies, historically placed on migration policies, aims to highlight some of the most significant contributions of the research during the last 30 years, to understand or explain various aspects and dimensions of the Argentinean migration policy. To achieve this, texts were selected that derived from empirical research that explicitly assume the migratory policies as the object of study, or whose themes and research problems adopt as a framework for discussion the policies and practices aimed at regulating migration and mobility in Argentina. The organization and presentation of these selected texts consider issues related to the interests and thematic concerns, disciplinary and analytical approaches, distinct periods, scales of analysis and sources of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the trajectory of science and technology (S&T) in Latin America is described. This trajectory has been divided into two stages. One corresponds to the creation of this field of study between the 1960s and the 1980s, during which the political focus on problems of development related to science and technology was most fruitful. Other lines of research were linked to internalist historical studies and, toward the end of the 1980s, to sociological and anthropological studies with a constructivist focus. The second stage begins in the 1990s and continues to the present. It covers, in large part, work on the economics of technological change and studies on policies and the implementation of technology, and, to a lesser extent, the sociology and history of technology. In addition to analyzing the focuses within these large areas of work on S&T, this article points out the absences and thematic gaps in this field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper alludes to the role played by Raúl Prebisch and the CEPAL in the process of production and institutionalization of a certain social and critical knowledge in the 50's in Latin America. From a bourdian perspective our aim is to go beyond biographical constructions that have been written about Prebisch's work and settle them down to the ideas developed by CEPAL. Because of that, we will try to analyze, on one hand, Prebisch's theoretical and strategic position in the field of social sciences at that time and to explain, on the other hand, CEPAL's blurred image due to the crisis of the substitute industrialization model, Prebisch's movement to the UNCTAD and the Dependent Economy Model debate in Latin America academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text analyses how Statistics has been applied in sociological research during the last four decades, and its links to the main social and political processes. From the informed experience of the author, it distinguishes three moments: height, exile, resurgence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The constitution of a Global Anthropology project is taking place in several studies throughout the world. It has especially been dealt by anthropological schools that are not in the so called "great centers"; those refer to Anthropology produced in the USA, England and France. This study analyzes the limits and possibilities of constitution of an anthropological global network, especially in the Latin American context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an overview of the development of sociology from the 1970s until present days. The main argument is that the originality of the foundational project of the sociology in Central America was its regional perspective, which first became weak and later almost completely disappeared. The challenge now is about how to strengthen the discipline from this perspective but grounded in the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to trace, reconstruct and analyze the files of the Intelligence Services regarding the production of Latin-American social sciences in the period 1976-1983. The object "Latin America" is to the services of intelligence a priori associated with and connoting "communist", "revolutionary" or "subversive". All the above led to an exhaustive work of exegesis and research on the production of Latin-American Social Sciences describing a double process: introducing professionalism in politics and political radicalization. The documents found in the Archive of the former Direction of Intelligence of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires [DIPBA] - (containing reports of other services of intelligence) allow to infer the importance and the degree of "danger" that the dictatorships attributed to this production. This research will analyze reports issued by Intelligence Offices on popular music, essays and, particularly, classic works produced by Latin American Social Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]