Sociological texts
Sociological Texts is a series of books that Heinz Maus and Friedrich Fürstenberg published together with Frank Benseler as the third editor who was added later from 1959 to 1977 by Hermann Luchterhand Verlag . The aim was to publish significant sociological texts .
The program
In the two-page foreword (1959) that preceded the first volumes, the founders programmatically set out their own position:
“Since its inception, sociology has sought to contribute to the understanding of current social problems. Research into social facts also requires constant checking of the analytical conceptual apparatus used. Because the temptation to seduce oneself into ideologically precarious positions through simplistic catchphrases, one-sided generalizations and uncritical adoption of time-related judgments, accompanies the research work in sociology from the very beginning [...] Certainly no investigation technique, however sophisticated it may be, and no inner sympathy In the phenomenon under study, as credible as it may be, sociology relieves the constant decision that its sentences must be verifiable and justified by the perceptible structure of the phenomena. But the theoretical considerations of sociology have always gone beyond the mere determination of what is and have prompted a problem-conscious, responsible position ... Society ... is subject to change in which it is a part. Your problems are affected by it: The old appear in a new light and the still unsolved of the present may be just the unresolved of the past. "
Volumes and authors
The scope of the program is already clear in the first four volumes published by 1961: source texts on the forerunners and the early days of industrial sociology ( Friedrich Fürstenberg ), a text edition on the criticism of ideology and the sociology of knowledge provided by Kurt Lenk , Max Weber's by Johannes Winckelmann from the manuscript edited sociology of law and Émile Durkheim of René King edited and introduced rules of sociological method .
By 1977, a total of 92 volumes had been published with a clear focus on the following areas: editions of “classical” texts, collections of texts by internationally important authors , monographs and research reports . Examples of other contributors whose texts were first published in German in the ST series are: Lewis A. Coser , Norbert Elias , Uta Gerhardt , Georges Gurvitch , Lucien Goldmann , Eric Hobsbawm , Hans Kilian , Vittorio Lanternari , Paul Lazarsfeld , Seymour Martin Lipset , Thomas Luckmann , Niklas Luhmann , Georg Lukács , Herbert Marcuse , C. Wright Mills , Stanisław Ossowski , Alfred Schütz , Alain Touraine . Even Wolfgang Abendroth , Hans Albert , Arnold Gehlen , Theodor Geiger , Hans Kelsen , Karl Mannheim , George Herbert Mead , William Fielding Ogburn , Talcott Parsons , William I. Thomas and Ernst Topitsch are represented with important choices volumes.
Research reports on the staff mentality , the social situation of the chemical workers to assembly workers in the GDR , for workers - sexuality , as well as to environmental and family of the elderly and the sociology of disaster , the special sociologies and subjects supplemented from the general sociology dedicated text books: sociology of religion , sociology of sport , Social systems , social change and the political theory and sociology of political parties. Country-specific collections for the Netherlands and the GDR were also presented.
A discussion volume (ST 58) published by Theodor W. Adorno on the Positivism Controversy in German Sociology (1969) with works by Adorno, Popper , Dahrendorf , Habermas and Albert proved to be an orienting reference work for the basic social science discourse .
Publishing development
The erstveröffentlichte in sociological texts in 1969 in German language book by Herbert Marcuse " One-Dimensional Man " was contrary to expectations, the editor of the cult book of '68 - generation , but woke when publishing because of the sales success inappropriate sales expectations in other titles. Failure to do so ultimately led to the publisher's decline in interest in the entire scientific series.
A new episode (NF) with a changed editor was only granted a brief moratorium . Some important titles survived in the program of the suhrkamp texte (st) paperback series.
Today [2010], the SL books on offer are presented in such a way that the sociological texts, in line with the editorial intention , offered lasting opportunities , as fashionable as the second and third hand judgments that spread in the 1960s and thus the promotion of sociological epigones whatever gives, gives, diminishes. Even today, the sociological texts in the Luchterhand Collection convey a panorama of sociological research in a wide variety of areas. In this respect, the “Sociological Texts” (ST) were, are and will remain an important scientific testimony from the time of the international dawn of German sociology as a well-established specialist discipline.
Individual evidence
- ↑ First published in Friedrich Furstenberg (ed.): Industrial Sociology I . Neuwied (Rhine) / Berlin-Spandau: Luchterhand, 1959 [= ST 1], p. 4