This article offers a contemporary reading of the foundational period of the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (Mexican Journal of Political and Social Sciences)(1955-1968), as part of the process of writing the history of social sciences in Mexico. The point of departure is the fulfillment of a commemorative cycle that marks 60 years of existence of the journal and its significance for our disciplinary communities. The place of the Revista is asserted in the framework of preceding journals of the beginning of the twentieth century and the original enunciation context is examined, as well as the communities and purposes that gave birth to it by the mid-fifties. Simultaneously, its thematic transformations and most meaningful...