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MORCILLO, Álvaro. Historia de un fracaso: intermediarios, organizaciones y la institucionalización de Weber en México (1937-1957). Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2008, vol.23, n.67, pp.149-190. ISSN 2007-8358.

While in Mexico the translations of Max Weber were little discussed and even less utilized, in the United States, his ideas revolutionized the discipline, fundamentally through the work of Talcott Parsons. This article shows that the scant attention paid to Weber in Mexico was not due as much to the domination of positivism in Mexico and of topics like mestizaje (racial mixing), but rather to the lack of an academic organization able to include Weber in its study plans and of an intermediary capable of convincing people of his work’s usefulness for Mexican sociology.

Palavras-chave : history of sociology; intellectual history; sociology of organizations; sociology of knowledge; Max Weber; José Medina Echavarría; Centro de Estudios Sociales (Center for Social Studies), El Colegio de México (The Mexican College); UNAM School of Political and Social Sciences.