GINO GERMANI, EN CLAVE URBANA. REVISITANDO SUS APORTES AL DEBATE SOBRE LA URBANIZACIÓN LATINOAMERICANA

Abstract

The work of Gino Germani constitutes an unavoidable precedent for analyzing Latin American urbanization and the theoretical-methodological approaches that were produced around it. If perhaps there is a sociological bet in his research, it is to think of the city as an integrating mechanism, as his famous essay published in 1967 in the Revista Mexicana de Sociologia. This article aims to revisit the main contributions of the intellectual to the debate on urbanization in Latin America, analyzing the theoretical-methodological scaffolding that he introduces, and, in turn, putting him in dialogue with some questions about the city and the urban, and what we could call its “integrative promise”.