Modern German Sociology

ISBN-13: 9780367376178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 492 str.

Volker Mejia; Dieter Misgeld; Nico Stehr

Opis

Originally published in 1987 Modern German Sociology is a collection of essays containing sociological work published in German since World War II. Included are sections from such out-standing figures as Theodor Adorno, Alexander Mitscherlich, Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, and Ralf Darendorf.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  Part I: German Sociology: A Retrospective  1. Sociology in the Interwar Period: Trends in Development and Criteria for Evaluation  2. The Tragic Consciousness of German Sociology  3. The Social Sciences Between Dogmatism and Decisionism: A Comparison of Karl Marx and Max Weber  Part II: Approaches to Theory  4. Sociology as a Science of Social Reality  5. Recent Developments in the Relation Between Theory and Research  6. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present  7. Modern Systems Theory and the Theory of Society  8. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society  Part III: Diagnoses of Contemporary Society  9. The Crystallization of Cultural Forms  10. Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?  11. Life Chances, Class Conflict, Social Change  12. The Poverty of the Bourgeois Democracy in Germany  Part IV: Class, Bureaucracy, and the State  13. The Origin of Class Societies: A Systems Analysis  14. Modes of Authority and Democratic Control  15. Toward a Theory of Late Capitalism  16. Beyond Status and Class: Will There Be an Individual Class Society?  Part V: Identity and Social Structure  17. Personal Identity as an Evolutionary and Historical Problem  18. Psychoanalysis as Social Theory  19. The Nature of Human Aggression  20. On the German Reception of Role Theory  21. Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics  Index

O autorze

Volker Meja (Edited by) , Dieter Misgeld (Edited by) , Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University, Germany)