社会学の原点：ドイツ社会学会第一回大会（英訳） Sociological Beginnings : The First Conference of the German Society for Sociology (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures

Adair-toteff, Christopher

Liverpool Univ Pr（2006/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 146 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780853237990
• DDC分類 301

基本説明

In 1910, Georg Simmel, Ernst Troeltsch, and others attended the first conference of the German Society for Sociology. Sociological Beginnings offers translations of five of the nine papers given there. The book also contains a noteworthy essay by Max Weber, who while supposedly reporting, on the business aspects of the Society, instead examined the unpopularity of their profession and proposed a set of tenets that might gain sociologists respect from the rest of the scientific community.

Full Description

This is a translated edition of five of the nine papers and the responses presented at the first conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Soziologie (DGS) that was held in 1910. These are seminal contributions by some of the founders of classical German sociology and social theory, including Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Toennies, Ernst Troeltsch, and Werner Sombart. A substantial introduction discusses the lives and works of the five thinkers, placing them in the context of Germany in the early twentieth century and discussing their personal and societal connections. The papers, none of which has ever appeared in English, are a remarkable testament to the developing thought of key scholars. The year 1910 was a defining year for German sociology. There were still no sociology schools, departments, or even professorships, but a significant number of important thinkers had published crucial sociological works. Through such publications Ferdinand Toennies, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, Werner Sombart and Ernst Troeltsch had founded considerable reputations, and by 1909 the first three had banded together with other scholars to form the DGS. The papers show German sociology at a decisive moment, when these thinkers were at their prime and were engaged in building a new society devoted to investigation of social reality based upon sound scholarly principles and free from biased social dogmatics. The topics continue to have relevance and the exchanges provide a lively dimension, one that is not found simply by reading the books of these five founders of sociological thinking.

Contents

PrefaceA Note on TranslationChronologyShort Biographies of the Main ParticipantsIntroductionGeorg Simmel - Sociology of SocietyFerdinand Toennies - Ways and Goals of SociologyMax Weber - Business Report followed by The Comparative Sociology of Newspapers and AssociationsWerner Sombart - Technology and CultureErnst Troeltsch - Stoic-Christian Natural Law and Modern Profane Natural LawSelect BibliographyIndex