Sociological Beginnings
The First Conference of the German Society for Sociology
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
With an Introduction by Christopher Adair-Toteff
244 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2005
In 1910, Georg Simmel, Ernst Troeltsch, and others attended the first conference of the German Society for Sociology. Sociological Beginnings offers translations of five of the nine papers given there—with topics ranging from the sociology of sociability to the ways in which sociology might be connected to civic life. The book also contains a noteworthy essay by Max Weber, who while supposedly reporting on the business aspects of the Society instead examined the unpopularity of the profession and proposed a set of tenets that might gain sociologists respect from the rest of the scientific community.
Contents
Preface
A Note on Translation
Chronology
Short Biographies of the Main Participants
Introduction
Georg Simmel, "Sociology of Society"
Ferdinand Tönnies, "Ways and Goals of Sociology"
Max Weber, "Business Report followed by The Comparative Sociology of Newspapers and Associations"
Werner Sombart, "Technology and Culture"
Ernst Troeltsch, "Stoic-Christian Natural Law and Modern Profane Natural Law"
Select Bibliography
Index
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