Traces for reconstructing a history of sociology at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Abstract

The Horacio José Pereyra Collection, presented in December 2024 at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, National University of La Plata, offers a privileged lens on the ties between archives, memory, and disciplinary history. This dossier gathers contributions from Miguel Kiperszmid, Nayla Pis Diez, and María Cristina Tortti, who, from different standpoints, evoke Professor Pereyra’s legacy and the many ways his trajectory illuminates the history of sociology in La Plata. Through the personal and academic documents preserved in the Collection, fragments of a collective history come into view: the early teaching of sociology, the theoretical debates of the 1960s and 1970s, the ruptures and exiles, and the institutional reconstruction during the democratic transition. The archive thus becomes an Aleph of university memory, where the traces of an intellectual life, the consolidation of a discipline, and the shifting tides of Argentina’s recent history converge.