Sociology in Ecuador

In this book this translates into a focus on the material and intellectual conditions of the possibility of a sociology in Ecuador, discussing the reception of sociological debates and highlighting the local efforts to build an Ecuadorian sociology with proper takes on central issues of society instead of copying or repeating ideas from the Global North. At all times, Ecuadorian sociology was a genuine sociology, offering proper explanations for social phenomena and engaging with the debates elsewhere—however, the latter mostly without an echo. A revision of those original proposals and their disappearance over time might help to understand the situation
of the Global South in a global sociology not only as the history of marginalization and exploitation but also as the history of systematic invisibilizations.