El papel de las redes en las oposiciones a cátedras de universidad en el primer franquismo (1940-1951)de "asaltos y conquistas"

Abstract

A key aspect of the construction of Francoist dictatorship and the socialization of its political culture was the control of education and science. In the University, the Ministry leaded by José Ibáñez Martín separated critical and heterodox professors, and took part decisively in public examinations for professors, through the direct appointment of examining boards. This paper analyses the intellectual profile and strategies deployed by the new professors in the public examinations, to understand the role of its relationships in their access to the University. The public examinations between 1940 and 1951 are studied systematically and they are analysed from a micro approach, and personal document of some candidates, most of them linked to academic nets and organizations like the Opus Dei, Falange and the Asociación Católica Nacional de Propagandistas. The objective is overcoming a simple vision of a process characterized by the adhesion to the dictatorship, but not only by it.