Sociological Beginnings: The First Conference of the German Society for Sociology

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Sociological Beginnings: The First Conference of the German Society for Sociology Christopher Adair-Toteff
Type:	eBook
Released:	2006
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Page Count:	165
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	085323809X
ISBN-13:	9780853238096

In 1910, Georg Simmel, Ernst Troeltsch, and others attended the first conference of the German Society for Sociology.Sociological Beginnings: The First ... Textbook 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. About the Author Christopher Adair-Toteff is associate professor of philosophy at Mississippi State University and a fellow of the Center for Social and Political Thought at the University of South Florida. He is a founding member of the International Social Theory Consortium.