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.
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. The editors have arranged the essays into five sections that express their view of the chief aspects of modern German sociology and have written a helpful introduction to each section.
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
Volker Meja (Edited by) , Dieter Misgeld (Edited by) , Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University, Germany)
