Modern German Sociology (Paperback, 1)

Preface Introduction Part I: German Sociology: A Retrospective 1 Sociology in the Interwar Period: Trends in Development and Criteria for Evaluation, M. Rainer Lepsius 2. The Tragic Consciousness of German Sociology, Kurt Lenk 3. The Social Sciences Between Dogmatism and Decisionism: A Comparison of Karl Marx and Max Weber, Jurgen Kocka Part II: Approaches to Theory 4. Sociology as a Science of Social Reality, Helmut Schelsky 5. Recent Developments in the Relation Between Theory and Research, Rene Konig 6. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present, Norbert Elias 7. Modern Systems Theory and the Theory of Society, Niklas Luhmann 8. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society, Jurgen Habermas Part III: Diagnoses of Contemporary Society 9. The Crystallization of Cultural Forms, Arnold Gehlen 10. Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?, Theodor W. Adorno 11. Life Chances, Class Conflict, Social Change, Ralf Dahrendorf 12. The Poverty of the Bourgeois Democracy in Germany, Oskar Negt Part IV: Class, Bureaucracy, and the State 13. The Origin of Class Societies: A Systems Analysis, Klaus Eder 14. Modes of Authority and Democratic Control, Wolfgang Schluchter 15. Toward a Theory of Late Capitalism, Claus Offe 16. Beyond Status and Class: Will There Be an Individual Class Society?, Ulrich Beck Part V: Identity and Social Structure 17. Personal Identity as an Evolutionary and Historical Problem, Thomas Luckmann 18. Psychoanalysis as Social Theory, Helmut Dahmer 19. The Nature of Human Aggression, Alexander Mitscherlich 20. On the German Reception of Role Theory, Friedrich H. Tenbruck 21. Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics, Ulrich Oevermann, with Tilman Allert, Elisabeth Konau and Jurgen Krambeck Index