Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi

The article pursues the emergence and rupture of German sociology between its beginning in the 19th century and 1933. It focuses on the University in Berlin which, founded in 1810, became the hub in Germany’s university world. The early phase was significantly shaped by Gustav Schmoller who was typi...

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Main Author: Hellmut Wollmann
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Language:deu
Published: Asociacion Castellano-Manchega de Sociologia (ACMS) 2014-10-01
Series:Barataria
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Online Access:https://revistabarataria.es/web/index.php/rb/article/view/41/40
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description The article pursues the emergence and rupture of German sociology between its beginning in the 19th century and 1933. It focuses on the University in Berlin which, founded in 1810, became the hub in Germany’s university world. The early phase was significantly shaped by Gustav Schmoller who was typically a reformist-minded economist (of the “Historical School”). In its further disciplinary unfolding sociology was promoted by a cohort of scholars among whom Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Werner Sombart excelled. After flourishing during the 1920s it was “brutally terminated” (René König) in 1933 when the Nazis seized power driving almost the entire generation of sociologists into exile or “inner emigration”. Since 1933 a new cohort of social scientists occupied the university scene that was ready to serve the Nazi rulers, with an institute at Berlin University, linked to the SS leadership, playing a particularly pernicious role.
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spelling doaj.art-d36181ef5aa84c7398950086289a629b2022-12-22T03:37:28ZdeuAsociacion Castellano-Manchega de Sociologia (ACMS)Barataria1575-08252172-31842014-10-01182943http://dx.doi.org/10.20932/barataria.v0i18.41Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen naziHellmut Wollmann0Universidad Humboldt, Berlín. Alemania/GermanyThe article pursues the emergence and rupture of German sociology between its beginning in the 19th century and 1933. It focuses on the University in Berlin which, founded in 1810, became the hub in Germany’s university world. The early phase was significantly shaped by Gustav Schmoller who was typically a reformist-minded economist (of the “Historical School”). In its further disciplinary unfolding sociology was promoted by a cohort of scholars among whom Max Weber, Georg Simmel and Werner Sombart excelled. After flourishing during the 1920s it was “brutally terminated” (René König) in 1933 when the Nazis seized power driving almost the entire generation of sociologists into exile or “inner emigration”. Since 1933 a new cohort of social scientists occupied the university scene that was ready to serve the Nazi rulers, with an institute at Berlin University, linked to the SS leadership, playing a particularly pernicious role.https://revistabarataria.es/web/index.php/rb/article/view/41/40University of Berlinintellectuals’ historydevelopment of sociological knowledge
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Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi
Barataria
University of Berlin
intellectuals’ history
development of sociological knowledge
title Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi
title_full Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi
title_fullStr Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi
title_full_unstemmed Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi
title_short Rise and rupture of the German sociology: between the Empire, the Republic and the nazi regime / El surgimiento y ruptura de la sociología alemana: entre el Imperio, la República y el régimen nazi
title_sort rise and rupture of the german sociology between the empire the republic and the nazi regime el surgimiento y ruptura de la sociologia alemana entre el imperio la republica y el regimen nazi
topic University of Berlin
intellectuals’ history
development of sociological knowledge
url https://revistabarataria.es/web/index.php/rb/article/view/41/40
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