Atoji Yoshio

Atoji Yoshio ( Japanese 阿 閉 吉 男 ; * August 28, 1913 ; † August 20, 1997 ) was a Japanese sociologist.

Life

He successfully completed a degree in sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1937 and worked at Nagoya University from 1950 (first as assistant professor, from 1960 as full professor) and was president of the Japanese Society for Sociology from 1970 to 1973 .

He made numerous contributions, especially on the German sociological history of ideas ( Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl , Lorenz von Stein , Max Weber and especially Georg Simmel ).

Publications (selection)

• Daihyoteki Shagaigakusha ("Representative Sociologists in Germany"), 1954
• Simmel no Shakaigaku ("Simmel's sociological methodology"), 1979
• Simmel to M. Weber ("Simmel and M. Weber"), 1981
• Sociology at the Turn of the Century. On G. Simmel in Comparision with F. Tönnies , M. Weber and E. Durkheim , Dobunkan, Tokyo 1984
• Georg Simmel's Sociological Horizons , Ochanomizu-shobo, Tokyo 1986

literature

• Y [ukitoshi] Suzuki, Atoji, Yoshio , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Volume 2, Enke, Stuttgart 1984, p. 31

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Atoji is the family name, Yoshio the first name.