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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meja, Volker, editor.

Misgeld, Dieter, editor.

Stehr, Nico, editor.

Series:

European Perspectives

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I. German Sociology: A Retrospective

1, Sociology in the Interwar Period: Trends in Development and Criteria for Evaluation / Lepsius, M. Rainer

2. The Tragic Consciousness of German Sociology / Lenk, Kurt

3. The Social Sciences Between Dogmatism and Decisionism: A Comparison of Karl Marx and Max Weber / Kocka, Jürgen

II. Approaches to Theory

4. Sociology as a Science of Social Reality / Schelsky, Helmut

5. Recent Developments in the Relation Between Theory and Research / König, René

6. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present / Elias, Norbert

7. Modern Systems Theory and the Theory of Society / Luhmann, Niklas

8. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society / Habermas, Jürgen

III. Diagnoses of Contemporary Society

9. The Crystallization of Cultural Forms / Gehlen, Arnold

10. Late Capitalism or Industrial Society? / Adorno, Theodor W.

11. Life Chances, Class Conflict, Social Change / Dahrendorf, Ralf

12. The Poverty of Bourgeois Democracy in Germany / Negt, Oskar

IV. Class, Bureaucracy, and the State

13. The Origin of Class Societies: A Systems Analysis / Eder, Klaus

14. Modes of Authority and Democratic Control / Schluchter, Wolfgang

15. Toward a Theory of Late Capitalism / Offe, Claus

16. Beyond Status and Class: Will There Be an Individualized Class Society? / Beck, Ulrich

V. Identity and Social Structure

17. Personal Identity as an Evolutionary and Historical Problem / Luckmann, Thomas

18. Psychoanalysis as Social Theory / Dahmer, Helmut

19. The Nature of Human Aggression / Mitscherlich, Alexander

20. On the German Reception of Role Theory / Tenbruck, Friedrich H.

21. Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics / Oevermann, Ulrich / Allert, With Tilman / Konau, Elisabeth / Krambeck, Jürgen

The Editors

The Authors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88664-0

OCLC:

1100437565