Modern German Sociology / / ed. by Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Dieter Misgeld.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adorno, Theodor W.,; Allert, With Tilman,; Beck, Ulrich,; Dahmer, Helmut,; Dahrendorf, Ralf,; Eder, Klaus,; Elias, Norbert,; Gehlen, Arnold,; Habermas, Jürgen,; Kocka, Jürgen,; Konau, Elisabeth,; Krambeck, Jürgen,; König, René,; Lenk, Kurt,; Lepsius, M. Rainer,; Luckmann, Thomas,; Luhmann, Niklas,; Mitscherlich, Alexander,; Negt, Oskar,; Oevermann, Ulrich,; Offe, Claus,; Schelsky, Helmut,; Schluchter, Wolfgang,; Tenbruck, Friedrich H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Meja, Volker,; Misgeld, Dieter,; Stehr, Nico,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: European Perspectives
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 Bourgeois Democracy in Germany --; 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 Individualized Class Society? --; 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 --; The Editors --; The Authors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231886642; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/meja92024
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Dieter Misgeld.

Looks at German intellectual developments, especially in the Federal Republic, and the critical responses to these developments.