Intermittent Dialogues: Relations between Brazil and Latin America

The America we call Latin has lived under an obsession with the future & facing a hard time to consolidate its national communities since the second half of the 19th century. Distinct modernizing thoughts, including scientism, faced nationalist ones concerned about identity, with the past being represented by Indian & Iberian cultures. It is within this historical-cultural framework that relations of identity & differentiation between Brazil & the other countries in Latin America are approached. The article will focus on 1950s & 1960s sociology as a development of the CEPAL matrix, & the constitution of two variants of sociological making: the Mertonian & the Mannheimian conceptions. Finally, CLAPCS & the America Latina Magazine are presented, relating to FLACSO as a space for action & circulation of an elite of Mertonian sociologists. 29 References. Adapted from the source document.