Clinical Sociology
Clinical sociology is a special form of microsociology that is understood as a service and is not limited to analyzes, but also seeks to intervene.
Methods and fields of work
Clinical sociology applies methods of sociology to practical problems. Special fields of work are organizational consulting and development as well as supervision and group therapy .
Clinical sociology is particularly practiced in the Anglo-American area. It was there in 1931 that Louis Wirth presented the first concept for this subject. The main representatives in Germany are Ulrich Oevermann and Bruno Hildenbrand .
Hildenbrandt defines:
- "Clinical sociology represents a special case of the transfer of sociological knowledge into everyday life. (...) It is understood as a sociological perspective that is not only in close contact with social practice (this can also be the case with the radical social criticism of the Fall), but you also work.
literature
- Louis Wirth, Clinical Sociology , in: American Journal of Sociology , 37, pp. 49-66 (1931).
- Bruno Hildenbrand (Ed.), Psychotherapy & Social Science 2/2009: Clinical Sociology . 11th year, 2/2009
- Ulrich Oevermann: Clinical sociology based on the methodology of objective hermeneutics - Manifesto of objective hermeneutic social research , Frankfurt am Main 2002, PDF file, 33 p. (173 kB)
Web links
- Bruno Hildenbrand: Psychiatric sociology as clinical sociology - a field report (PDF; 307 kB)
- Clinical sociology and socio-analysis at the Institute for Hermeneutic Social and Cultural Research (Overmann)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Hildenbrand (ed.), Psychotherapie & Sozialwissenschaft 2/2009: Clinical Sociology . 11th year, 2/2009, editorial, p. 3.