TY - BOOK AU - Adair-Toteff,Christopher ED - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie. TI - Sociological beginnings: the first Conference of the German Society for Sociology T2 - Studies in social and political thought SN - 9781846314100 AV - HM13 .D46 2006eb U1 - 301 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press KW - Sociology KW - Germany KW - Congresses KW - Sociologists KW - Sociologie KW - Allemagne KW - Congrès KW - Sociologues KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Regional Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Anthropology KW - General KW - fast KW - gtt KW - Congressen KW - Soziologie KW - Electronic books KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft KW - Actes de congrès KW - rvmgf N1 - Selected conference papers; Translated from the German; Includes bibliographical references and index; Sociology of society / Georg Simmel -- Ways and goals of sociology / Ferdinand Tonnies -- Business report followed by the comparative sociology of newspapers and associations / Max Weber -- Technology and culture / Werner Sombart -- Stoic-Christian natural law and modern profane natural law / Ernst Troeltsch N2 - This is a translated edition of five of the nine papers and the responses presented at the first conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) that was held in 1910. These are seminal contributions by some of the founders of classical German sociology and social theory, including Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies, Ernst Troeltsch and Werner Sombart. A substantial introduction discusses the lives and works of the five thinkers, placing them in the context of Germany in the early twentieth century and discussing their personal and societal connections UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=242493 ER -