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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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Émile Durkheim on Sociology - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas IV 9 Sociology/Durkheim/Habermas: Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology together with Max Weber and George Herbert Mead. Like Mead, he proceeds from Weber's concept of rationalization. In the end, Durkheim creates a theory of social solidarity that also includes social and system integration which are related to each other. >M. Weber, >G. H. Mead. Habermas IV 304 Sociology/Durkheim/Habermas: Durkheim starts from "collective representations". >Collectives/Durkheim, >State (Polity)/Durkheim. HabermasVsDurkheim: I propose communicative action as a basic concept. Then society can first be conceived as the lifeworld of members of a social group. (Systems theoryVs). >Communicative action, >Lifeworld, cf. >System theory._____________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. |
Durkheim I E. Durkheim The Rules of Sociological Method - French: Les Règles de la Méthode Sociologique, Paris 1895 German Edition: Die Regeln der soziologischen Methode Frankfurt/M. 1984 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 |