Religionssoziologie in Deutschland seit 1945: Tendenzen – Kontroversen – Konsequenzen

Pollack, Detlef

doi:10.1007/s11577-015-0335-4

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“…6 Since the Germans do not speak less well English than Austrians or Swiss, the size of the national sociological community must be the decisive factor. The author of a review on "Sociology of religion in Germany since 1945" (Pollack 2015) states explicitly that German sociology of religion is under-represented on the international level, given its productivity and high degree of institutionalization.…”

Section: International Journal Of Sociologymentioning

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A Global Scientific Community? Universalism Versus National Parochialism in Patterns of International Communication in Sociology*

Haller

2019

International Journal of Sociology

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The paper starts from the thesis that unhindered international communication is a central characteristic of modern science. Second, the paper argues that scientific progress cannot be defined unequivocally in the social sciences. Four structures inhibit free international communication (linguistic barriers, the size of a national sociological community, the quality of scientific research, and the influence of specific sociologists and their schools). Third, three kinds of data are used to investigate the relevance of these factors: The participation in international congresses, the quotation patterns in major sociological journals and the reasons for the exceptional success of three sociologists, from the USA, France and Germany, respectively. Finally, a short hint toward the development of sociology outside the Western world is given. The paper concludes with some reflections on strategies to change the one-sided, asymmetrical communication in sociology toward a more balanced pattern.

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Section: International Journal Of Sociologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Global Scientific Community? Universalism Versus National Parochialism in Patterns of International Communication in Sociology*

Haller

2019

International Journal of Sociology

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Sociology in Germany After 1990

Moebius

2021

Sociology in Germany

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While far-reaching intellectual influences changed the face of sociology in the 1980s, the development of sociology in the 1990s was first and foremost shaped by a concrete social and political transformation, the fall of the Berlin Wall. Soon after the German reunification, East German sociology almost entirely disappeared and West German sociology extended to the East. The triumph of capitalist society fostered a brief comeback of modernization theory. As the system change came along with severe social problems, theories and research projects focusing on social exclusion, precarious work, and xenophobia moved to the center stage of sociological thinking. The first decade of this century again brought about major changes for society and sociology. Market logic increasingly dominated social and education policy; economic thinking and its involvement in political affairs was on the rise and may have contributed to a marginalization of the influence of sociology on policy making. Characteristic is a further specialization and differentiation, visible through the multiplication of special sociologies. The landscape of sociological theory in Germany continued to change: Earlier, grand theories were dominant, whereas nowadays a trend toward sociological diagnoses of contemporary society can be observed. Overall, contemporary sociology in Germany can be characterized by the following features: (1) historically and philosophically informed sociological theory has always been and still is important, (2) German sociology lacks self-confidence compared to US-American sociology, (3) German sociology has a critical attitude and a strong tradition of public sociology, (4) self-critical debates and internal controversies have always existed and still persist in the field of German sociology. Most recently, this could be observed in the splitting off of the Academy of Sociology from the German Sociological Association and the accompanying debates.

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