2. The Tragic Consciousness of German Sociology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction 1
5. I. German Sociology: A Retrospective
6. 1, Sociology in the Interwar Period: Trends in Development and Criteria for Evaluation 31
7. 2. The Tragic Consciousness of German Sociology 57
8. 3. The Social Sciences Between Dogmatism and Decisionism: A Comparison of Karl Marx and Max Weber 76
9. II. Approaches to Theory
10. 4. Sociology as a Science of Social Reality 113
11. 5. Recent Developments in the Relation Between Theory and Research 138
12. 6. The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present 150
13. 7. Modern Systems Theory and the Theory of Society 173
14. 8. The Tasks of a Critical Theory of Society 187
15. III. Diagnoses of Contemporary Society
16. 9. The Crystallization of Cultural Forms 213
17. 9. The Crystallization of Cultural Forms 218
18. 10. Late Capitalism or Industrial Society? 232
19. 11. Life Chances, Class Conflict, Social Change 248
20. 12. The Poverty of Bourgeois Democracy in Germany 257
21. IV. Class, Bureaucracy, and the State
22. 13. The Origin of Class Societies: A Systems Analysis 273
23. 14. Modes of Authority and Democratic Control 291
24. 15. Toward a Theory of Late Capitalism 324
25. 16. Beyond Status and Class: Will There Be an Individualized Class Society? 340
26. V. Identity and Social Structure
27. 17. Personal Identity as an Evolutionary and Historical Problem 357
28. 18. Psychoanalysis as Social Theory 383
29. 19. The Nature of Human Aggression 402
30. 20. On the German Reception of Role Theory 410
31. 21. Structures of Meaning and Objective Hermeneutics 436
32. The Editors 449
33. The Authors 451
34. Index 461