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Alfredo Poviña (1904–1986) was an Argentine sociologist and one of the leading practitioners of academic sociology in Latin America.

Selected works

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History of Latin American sociology (1941)
Sociology Course (1945)
Cuestiones de ontologia sociologica [Questions of sociological ontology]. Córdoba: Editorial Assandri. 1949.^[1]
New history of American sociology (1959)
Treaty of Sociology
Theory of Folklore

References

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^ Uranga, Emilio (1950). "Review of Cuestiones de Ontología Sociolígica". Revista Mexicana de Sociología. 12 (1): 107–109. doi:10.2307/3537979. ISSN 0188-2503. JSTOR 3537979. Retrieved 7 August 2025.

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