German Sociology: T.W. Adorno, M. Horkheimer, G. Simmel, M. Weber, and Others (Paperback)

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 Superiority and Subordination as Subject Matter of Sociology 1
2 Domination and Legitimacy 24
3 Some Reflections on the Sociological Character of Political Parties 38
4 The Nazi Party: Its Leadership and Composition 49
5 Ludendorff: The German Concept of Total War 67
6 The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology 81
7 Today and the Task 95
8 The Pattern of Democratic Personality 101
9 The Mass Society of the Present 117
10 Homo Sociologicus: On the History, Significance, and Limits of the Category of Social Role 128
11 Society 150
12 Family and Authority: The German Father in 1955 166
13 Role Distance, Role Identification, and Amoral Role Behavior 176
14 On Systematically Distorted Communication 185
15 Two Sociological Traditions 195
16 German Survivors of World War II: The Impact on the Life Course of the Collective Experience of Birth Cohorts 207
17 Aging as a Challenge for Sociological Theory 222
18 Germany and the Problem of Aggressiveness 234
19 Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East Central Europe 242
20 Toward a European Welfare State? On Integrating Poverty Regimes into the European Community 258
Notes 274
The Authors 309