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Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires

The Faculty of Social Sciences (Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; FSoc), commonly and informally known as Sociales, is the social sciences faculty of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the largest university in Argentina. It was founded in 1988, and offers degrees on social work, sociology, labor relations, communication and political science, in addition to a number of post-graduate degrees.

Faculty of Social Sciences
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
FSoc seat at Santiago del Estero 1019, Constitución
TypeFaculty
Established1988; 36 years ago (1988)
AffiliationUniversity of Buenos Aires
DeanAna Josefina Arias
Academic staff
2,000[1]
Students25,000[1]
Postgraduates2,500[1]
Location
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina

34°22′17″S 58°13′50″W / 34.3714°S 58.2305°W / -34.3714; -58.2305
Websitesociales.uba.ar

The Faculty also has with two research institutes: the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (IIGG) and the Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC), in addition to several research centers and observatories. Among the Faculty's regular publications are the Ciencias Sociales, Sociedad, and Sociales en Debate journals. As of 2011, it was the fifth-largest faculty in the university by number of students.[2]

It is housed in two separate buildings, one located on Marcelo T. de Alvear street, in the Recoleta barrio, and another on Santiago del Estero street, in Constitución. Since 2011, most graduate courses are taught at the Santiago del Estero building.

History

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The Faculty of Social Sciences was founded on 25 August 1988, when the social sciences degrees at the University of Buenos Aires were split from other UBA faculties. The university already offered social work degrees since 1946, sociology degrees since 1957 (at the behest of Italian-born sociologist and researcher Gino Germani), and labor relations degrees since 1975. Following the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983), the arrival of political science (1985) and communication sciences (1986) degrees to the university led to the creation of a new faculty within UBA focused entirely on social sciences.[3]

 
FSoc building at Marcelo T. de Alvear 2230.

During the early years of the FSoc's existence, there was no single building where all classes and research institutes could convene. Instead, different buildings owned by the university were assigned for the Faculty's activities. The rise in registered students in the 1990s made these existing facilities insufficient, and in 1997 students and professors staged a two-month strike, demanding a new, unified building for the Faculty. Eventually, UBA authorities bought a former textile factory building on Ramos Mejía 847 (near Parque Centenario), with capacity for 3,600 students, and granted it to the Faculty.[4]

The Faculty's student body kept growing steadily into the 2000s, and by 2002 the Ramos Mejía building had been outgrown. A 43-day takeover of the UBA rector's offices by FSoc students led to an agreement to build new headquarters for FSoc.[5] In co-operation with the Ministry of Education, the University bought the abandoned site of an old Terrabusi factory, which it set out to recondition as FSoc's new headquarters.[6] The building, located on Santiago del Estero 1029 in the Constitución neighborhood, was inaugurated in 2011. It houses all graduate courses.[7][8]

Graduate and post-graduate programs

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In addition, the Faculty of Social Sciences offers a number of specialization degrees, as well as doctorates and post-doctoral degrees.[12]

Research institutes and dependencies

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The Faculty of Social Sciences has two research institutes: the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani (IIGG) and the Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC), in addition to several research centers and observatories. The IIGG has over 260 researchers, 220 grant-holders, and 150 research interns. Over 150 financed researchc projects are carried out by the IIGG, making it one of the largest and most relevant research institutes in Latin America.[13] The Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC) centers its work on promoting, co-ordinating and developing a Latin American perspective on social studies pertaining to the region.[14]

The Faculty also operates a specialized library with contents pertaining to social sciences. The library's collection includes over 53,000 volumes, including reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes, databases), theses, and journals. Many of these works are digitalized and form part of the library's digital catalogue.[15]

Political and institutional life

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Like the rest of the University of Buenos Aires's faculties, the Faculty of Social Sciences operates under the principle of tripartite co-governance, wherein authorities are democratically elected and professors, students and graduates are represented in the faculty's governing bodies. The faculty is headed by a Dean (Spanish: decana or decano), who presides over the Directive Council (Consejo Directivo). The Directive Council is made up of eight representatives for the professors, four representatives of the student body, and four representatives of the faculty's graduates. Deans are elected by the Directive Council every four years, while elections to the council take place every two years.[16]

Administrative work is further carried out by appointed secretariats. Each of the graduate courses is also administered through democratically elected directors and Juntas de Carrera. Since 2022, the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences has been Dr. Ana Josefina Arias.[17]

Notable people

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Notable alumni of the Faculty of Social Sciences include former Cabinet Chiefs Juan Manuel Abal Medina and Santiago Cafiero,[18][19] politicians Gladys González, Guadalupe Tagliaferri,[20] Daniel Arroyo,[21] Silvia Lospennato,[22] and Laura Alonso[23] (all licenciates in Political Science), as well as sociologists Alcira Argumedo,[24] Horacio González,[25] Hilda Herzer, and Nathalia González Seligra.[26]

Notable faculty at FSoc include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel,[27] Dora Barrancos,[28] Juan Carlos Portantiero (who served as dean from 1990 to 1998),[29] Atilio Borón,[30] Tomás Várnagy,[31] Pedro Brieger,[32] Christian Castillo,[33] Daniel Filmus, and Carla Carrizo.[34]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Institucional". sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Censo de Estudiantes 2011" (PDF). uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  3. ^ Guarinoni, Laura (4 October 2013). "Sociales festeja sus primeros 25 años". Página 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  4. ^ Bruschtein, Julián (25 March 2008). "El edificio de nunca acabar". Página 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Final a medias para la toma del Rectorado de la UBA". Clarín (in Spanish). 27 November 2002. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Si no hay tomas, hay plata para el edificio". Página 12 (in Spanish). 14 October 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Una ex fábrica de galletitas, nueva sede de Ciencias Sociales". La Nación (in Spanish). 23 March 2010. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  8. ^ Torres Cabreros, Delfina (17 March 2015). "Todos juntos, después de dieciocho años". Página 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Profesorados". sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Profesorados". sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  11. ^ "Posgrados". sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  12. ^ "Maestrías y especializaciones". sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish).
  13. ^ "Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires (IIGG)". Acta Académica (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  14. ^ "Misión". iealc.sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  15. ^ "Biblioteca". sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  16. ^ "Ricardo Gelpi fue electo rector de la UBA". rrhh.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  17. ^ "UBA: Ana Arias asumirá como decana de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales". Ámbito Financiero (in Spanish). 3 August 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  18. ^ "Juan Manuel Abal Medina: curriculum vitae" (PDF). University of Buenos Aires School of Social Sciences. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  19. ^ Sued, Gabriel (6 December 2019). "Santiago Cafiero es el jefe de Gabinete de Ministros: el joven que se convirtió en la mano derecha de Alberto Fernández". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  20. ^ "Larreta piensa en una mujer para darle perfil progresista a su lista de la Ciudad". El Cronista (in Spanish). 18 June 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  21. ^ "¿Quién es Daniel Arroyo, el nuevo ministro de Desarrollo Social?". Ámbito Financiero (in Spanish). 6 December 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  22. ^ "Silvia Gabriela Lospennato". Directorio Legislativo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  23. ^ Aho, Matthew. "Politics Innovator: Laura Alonso, Argentina". Americas Quarterly. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  24. ^ "Curriculum". Alicia Argumedo. Archived from the original on 25 April 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  25. ^ "Murió Horacio González, exdirector de la Biblioteca Nacional y miembro de Carta Abierta". Ámbito Financiero (in Spanish). 22 June 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  26. ^ "NATHALIA GONZÁLEZ SELIGRA". La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish). 2015. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  27. ^ "Biografía". Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012.
  28. ^ "Barrancos, Dora". FLACSO Argentina (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  29. ^ Moreno, Oscar (August 2007). "Sociología y política. Juan Carlos Portantiero". Cuadernos del Cendes (in Spanish). 24 (64). Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela. ISSN 2443-468X.
  30. ^ "Atilio Boron". Alibris. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  31. ^ "Editorial Eudeba | Resultados de Várnagy, Tomás - Por autor". Editorial Eudeba (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  32. ^ "Sociología del Medio Oriente". sociologia.sociales.uba.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  33. ^ "Elecciones porteñas 2007". Perfil (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 June 2007.
  34. ^ Tesoro, José Luis (November 2017). "ENTREVISTA CON LA LIC. CARLA CARRIZO, DIPUTADA NACIONAL POR LA CIUDAD DE BUENOS AIRES, PRESIDENTE DE LA COMISIÓN BICAMERAL DEL DEFENSOR DE LOS DERECHOS DE LOS NIÑOS, NIÑAS Y ADOLESCENTES". Fundación DPT (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 July 2021.
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