Abstract
This article approaches the process of institutionalization of Sociology in Latin America in the sixties from a gender perspective. It argues that there is a historical sociology from and for Latin America and in this framework, the trajectories of two women are analyzed: María Cristina Salazar (Colombia) and Betty Cabezas de González (Chile). Based on the biographical network method, the article proposes to highlight the entanglement between Roman Catholic sphere and Sociology in the process of institutionalization of Latin American sociology in the sixties, and the visibility of academic women’s agency in that process. The article is structured in two parts. In the first, some aspects of the institutionalization of sociology in Latin America are addressed and its vocation towards historical sociology is affirmed. In the second, facts and experiences of the biography of the two women mentioned above are addressed regarding the process in question. In the conclusions, the strongest argumentative lines of the text are summarized, showing the relevance of the link between religion and sociology and the agency of women in the process of institutionalization of the field.
Keywords
Sociology; historical sociology; Latin American sociology; Gender; Religion; Betty Cabezas; Maria Cristina Salazar