Orlando Fals Borda

Orlando Fals Borda ( born July 11, 1925 in Barranquilla, † August 12, 2008 in Bogotá ) was a Colombian sociologist.

Fals Borda received his doctorate in 1955 in sociology at the University of Florida. In 1959 he founded at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Camilo Torres Restrepo, together with the first sociological faculty of Latin America. In the late 1960s he was instrumental in the establishment of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales. in the 1970s he founded with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the magazine Alternativa.

Writings (selection )

  • Peasant society in the Colombian Andes: a sociological study of Saucío. 1955
  • Subversion and social change in Colombia. 1969
  • The Challenge of social change. 1984
  • Action and knowledge: breaking the monopoly with participatory action research. 1991
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