Modern German Sociology / / 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.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1987]
©1987
Year of Publication:1987
Language:English
Series:European Perspectives
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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