In this fascinating account of the master social scientist and
policy innovator, Gino Germani, written by his daughter, the reader
will find a rich social and intellectual history. Germani's life
traversed Italy under Mussolini's fascism, Argentina under
Peronism, and North America during the glorious days of the social
sciences' postwar expansion. With high irony, the biography
concludes with Germani's return to Naples, Italy, as what Ana
Germani correctly calls "an outsider in the homeland." This is a
volume that should be uniquely appealing to area specialists,
social psychologists, and those concerned with the cross-currents
of politics and society.
From his youth in Italy, which he left as a result of
persecution by the Fascist authorities, through his long and
distinguished career in international social science, and a career
carved out in a series of exiles, Germani maintained a unity of
purpose based on a liberal world outlook in political terms and a
struggle against totalitarianism. Social science was the cement
that bound Germani's affirmations of democracy and his opposition
to dictatorship. In Argentina, Germani is recognized as the founder
of modern scientific sociology. There as elsewhere, his work was
grounded on the presumption that a biometric society was the ground
on which all science develops.
Living and working during one of the most fertile periods in
the development of social research in Argentina, Germani was the
central protagonist of its most fertile period. Argentina served as
a central focal point for discussion and debate on the practices of
modern societies and the cultural forms. Whether in Italy,
Argentina, or the United States, German's work took seriously the
individual and transpersonal events that helped form social
structures of modernization. The book is rich in details, providing
a full bibliography of the works of Germani, his relationships with
foundations, universities and personnel, and brief profiles of
individuals who worked with and knew him.
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