Sociology in Europe

In Search of Identity

Birgitta Nedelmann, Piotr Sztompka, Birgitta Nedelmann, Piotr Sztompka

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110138450
• eBook ISBN: 9783110887440
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Demography
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• 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 Theory
• 2 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 Society
• 5 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 Sociology
• 3 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 Elements
• 1 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
• 1 Sociology and the Evolution of Civil Society Before Socialism
• 2 Sociology, State Socialism, and Subsequent Attempts to Reconstitute Civil Society
• 2.1 The Stalinist Social Order: Sociology as Bourgeois Pseudoscience
• 2.2 The Post-Stalinist Quest for New Legitimacy: The Quest for Sociology as an Independent Discipline
• 3 The Study of Social Structure
• 3.1 From Class to Stratification (From Cooperation to Conflicts between Sociologists and Reform-communists)
• 4 Reform, Social Change, and Research on Social Structure
• 5 Sociology and the Transition to Post-communism
• References
• Between Universal and Native: The Case of Polish Sociology
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Transformations in Polish Society in the Twentieth Century
• 3 Stages in the Development of Sociology in Poland
• 4 The Changing Social Roles of Sociologists
• 5 Towards World Sociology
• 6 In the Service of Society
• 7 Conclusions
• References
• Part III: Two Views From Afar
• European Sociology and the Modernisation of Japan
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Early Modernisation in Japan
• 3 European Sociology of the First Generation and Japan
• 3.1 John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer
• 3.2 Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte
• 3.3 Lorenz von Stein and Karl Marx in Japan
• 4 European Sociology of the Second Generation and Japan
• 4.1 The Influence of Emile Durkheim in Japan
• 4.2 Georg Simmel and Max Weber in Japan
• 5 Early American Sociology in Japan
• 6 European Sociology of the Present Generation and Japan
• 6.1 The Americanisation of Postwar Japanese Sociology
• 6.2 Talcott Parsons and Japan
• 7 From Karl Mannheim's Theory of Ideology to Bell's End of Ideology
• 8 Summary and Conclusion: From One-way to Two-way Communication
• References
• Europe and America in Search of Sociology : Reflections on a Partnership
• 1 Interrelation Between American and European Sociology in the Period of Formation
• 2 The Partnership in the Modern Era
• 3 Future of Sociology After the European Revolutions
• References
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Names