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Sociology in Europe : in search of identity /

The "European Revolution" of 1989 has not only brought about dramatic and far-reaching changes in the social structure of East and West European countries, but also in the social sciences. This volume is an attempt to evaluate how sociology has been affected by this dramatic event and how...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nedelmann, Birgitta, 1941-, Sztompka, Piotr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Project
  • 2 The Contributions
  • 2.1 Part I: Is There a European Sociology?
  • 2.2 Part II: Some National Traditions
  • 2.3 Part III: Two Views from Afar
  • References
  • Part I: Is there a European Sociology?
  • European Sociology: The Identity Lost?
  • 1 On the Identity of European Sociology in the Classical Age
  • 2 Classical European Sociology: A Multidimensional Programme
  • 3 Has European Sociology Preserved its Identity?
  • References
  • The Contribution of German Social Theory to European Sociology
  • 1 US Hegemony after the Second World War: The Americanisation of European Social Theory2 The Revitalisation of European Social Theory
  • 2.1 British Social Theory: Class, Solidarity, and Conflict
  • 2.2 French Social Theory: The Power of Structure
  • 3 German Social Theory: The Dialectics of Modernity
  • 3.1 Kant, Hegel, and Marx
  • 3.2 Simmel and Weber
  • 3.3 Critical Theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas
  • 3.4 Systems' Theory: Luhmann
  • 3.5 The Critical Turn of Systems' Theory
  • 3.6 The Iron Cage of Systems' Theory: Is there any Escape?
  • 4 The Dialectics of Progress: The Good and the Dangerous Life in Modern Society5 Between Interrelated Diversity and Anglo-American Cultural Imperialism
  • References
  • Towards a European Sociology
  • 1 Has there Ever Been a European Sociology?
  • 2 Sociology and Modernity
  • 3 Sociology in Modern Times
  • 4 Present Trends
  • 5 Tracing the Future of Sociology in its History
  • References
  • Part II: Some National Traditions
  • The Changing British Role in European Sociology
  • 1 Britain versus Europe or Sociology as a Foreign Agent
  • 2 The Anglo-European Rapprochement in Sociology3 Universalism and the Two Continents
  • 4 The New European Sociology
  • References
  • A Marginal Discipline in the Making: Austrian Sociology in a European Context
  • 1 Early Cosmopolitanism without an Institutional Basis: From the Beginnings to the Second World War
  • 2 The Advantages of Non-professionalism: Austrian Social Sciences in the Interwar Period
  • 3 Emergent Professionalisation after 1945: Turning the Inward Look Outward?
  • 4 What then Does Austrian Sociology Have to Offer?
  • References
  • Scandinavian Sociology and its European Roots and Elements1 The European Roots I: Concrete Social Research
  • 2 The European Roots II: Ethnology and Social Anthropology
  • 3 The European Roots III: The Logical Positivism of the 1920s and 1930s
  • 4 The Institutionalisation of Sociology after the Second World War
  • 5 The Postwar Sociology up to 1970
  • 6 Paradigmatic Changes
  • 7 An Increase of Nationally Independent and Salient Contributions
  • References
  • Social Change and Research on Social Structure in Hungary