TY - BOOK AU - Adorno,Theodor W. AU - Allert,With Tilman AU - Beck,Ulrich AU - Dahmer,Helmut AU - Dahrendorf,Ralf AU - Eder,Klaus AU - Elias,Norbert AU - Gehlen,Arnold AU - Habermas,Jürgen AU - Kocka,Jürgen AU - Konau,Elisabeth AU - Krambeck,Jürgen AU - König,René AU - Lenk,Kurt AU - Lepsius,M.Rainer AU - Luckmann,Thomas AU - Luhmann,Niklas AU - Meja,Volker AU - Misgeld,Dieter AU - Mitscherlich,Alexander AU - Negt,Oskar AU - Oevermann,Ulrich AU - Offe,Claus AU - Schelsky,Helmut AU - Schluchter,Wolfgang AU - Stehr,Nico AU - Tenbruck,Friedrich H. TI - Modern German Sociology T2 - European Perspectives SN - 9780231920247 PY - 1987///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - Looks at German intellectual developments, especially in the Federal Republic, and the critical responses to these developments UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/meja92024 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231886642 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231886642.jpg ER -