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Sociology: Sociology is the empirical study of society, focusing on behavior, institutions, and patterns. Social theory, on the other hand, provides conceptual frameworks to understand and analyze social phenomena, offering theoretical perspectives and explanations. See also Society, Social theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Sociology - Dictionary of Arguments
III 19 Sociology/Habermas: has emerged as a discipline vis-à-vis economics and politics that was responsible for those who put aside problems on their way to a specialist science.(1) >Economics, >Politics, Their subject is the changes in social integration that have been brought about in the structure of old European societies by the emergence of the modern system of states and by the differentiation of a market-regulated economic system. Sociology is becoming a science for crisis par excellence. III 20 Unlike politics and business, sociology has maintained a link to problems in society as a whole. The social interactions are (...) III 21 by no means as specialised as interactions in the fields of action in economics and politics. It shows a particular willingness to take up the problem of rationality. >Systems, >Systems theory. 1.F. Jonas, Geschichte der Soziologie, Bd. I-IV, Reinbek, 1968-69; R. W. Friedrichs, A Sociology of Sociology, N. Y. 1970; T. Bottomore, R. Nisbet, A History of Sociological Analysis, N. Y. 1978._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |