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1940s In Sociology
{, class="infobox" , - style="background:#f3f3f3;" , style="text-align:center;", 1930s . 1940s in sociology . 1950s , - , style="text-align:center;", Other topics: Anthropology . Comics . music The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1940s. 1940 *Marc Bloch's ''Feudal Society'' is published. *Marc Bloch's '' Strange Defeat; a Statement of Evidence'' is published. *Franz Boas's '' Race, Language and Culture'' is published. * Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's ''The Nuer'' is published. * Meyer Fortes's ''African Political Systems'' is published. * David V. Glass's '' Population Policies and Movements in Europe'' is published. *Walter Benjamin's '' On the Concept of History'' is published. * Robert M. MacIver serves as president of the ASA. Births *Claus Offe *George Ritzer Deaths *September 27: Walter Benjamin 1941 * Melville Jean Herskovits' '' The Myth of the Negro Past'' is published. *George Homans' '' English villages in the Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s In Sociology
{, class="infobox" , - style="background:#f3f3f3;" , style="text-align:center;", 1920s in sociology, 1920s . 1930s in sociology . 1940s in sociology, 1940s , - , style="text-align:center;", Other topics: 1930s in anthropology, Anthropology . 1930s in comics, Comics The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1930s. 1930 *Sigmund Freud's ''Civilization and Its Discontents'' is published. *Maurice Halbwachs' ''The Causes of Suicide'' is published. *Robert Redfield's ''Tepozltan: Life in a Mexican Village'' is published. *Clifford Shaw's ''The Jack Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story'' is published. *Pitirim Sorokin's ''Rural Sociology'' is published. *Leon Trotsky's ''History of the Russian Revolution'' is published. *Founding of The Frankfurt School *Howard W. Obum serves as President of the American Sociological Association, ASA 1931 *Marc Bloch's ''French Rural History'' is published. *Hans Freyer's ''Revolution of Right'' is published. *Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Concept Of History
"Theses on the Philosophy of History" or "On the Concept of History" (german: Über den Begriff der Geschichte) is an essay written in early 1940 by German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin. It is one of Benjamin's best-known, and most controversial works. Composed of twenty numbered paragraphs, the brief essay was written by Benjamin shortly before he attempted to escape from Vichy France, where French collaborationist government officials were handing over Jewish refugees like Benjamin to the Nazi Gestapo. ''Theses'' is the last major work Benjamin completed before fleeing to Spain where, fearing Nazi capture, he died by suicide on 26 September 1940. Summary In the essay, Benjamin uses poetic and scientific analogies to present a critique of historicism. One interpretation of Benjamin in Thesis I is that Benjamin is suggesting that despite claims to scientific objectivity, the historical materialism of vulgar Marxists is actually a quasi-religious fraud. Benjamin uses T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet ''The Communist Manifesto'' and the four-volume (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married German theatre critic and political activist Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German philosopher Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reason And Revolution
''Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory'' (1941; second edition 1954) is a book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author discusses the social theories of the philosophers Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx. Marcuse reinterprets Hegel, with the aim of demonstrating that Hegel's basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that led to fascism. The book has received praise as an important discussion of Hegel and Marx. Summary Marcuse attempts to show that "Hegel's basic concepts are hostile to the tendencies that have led into Fascist theory and practice." Marcuse criticizes the thesis, propounded by the sociologist Leonard Hobhouse in ''The Metaphysical Theory of the State'' (1918), that Hegel provided an ideological preparation for German authoritarianism. In an appendix to the 1960 edition, Marcuse states that the "only major recent development in the interpretation of Hegel's philosophy is the postwar revival of Hegel studies in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse (; ; July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin and then at Freiburg, where he received his PhD. He was a prominent figure in the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research – what later became known as the Frankfurt School. He was married to Sophie Wertheim (1924–1951), Inge Neumann (1955–1973), and Erica Sherover (1976–1979). In his written works, he criticized capitalism, modern technology, Soviet Communism and popular culture, arguing that they represent new forms of social control. Between 1943 and 1950, Marcuse worked in US government service for the Office of Strategic Services (predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency) where he criticized the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the book '' Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garrison State
The Garrison State is a concept first introduced in a seminal, highly influential and cited 1941 article originally published in the '' American Journal of Sociology'' by political scientist and sociologist Harold Lasswell. It was a "developmental construct" that outlined the possibility of a political-military elite composed of "specialists in violence" in a modern state. Lasswell was particularly influenced by the development of aerial warfare, especially as employed during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which he believed would lead to a "socialization of danger" throughout. His writings preceded and anticipated criminal fire-bombing campaigns in the era of the Vietnam War, including the use of Agent Orange, and beyond, as well as firebombings of Dresden, Tokyo, London, Hamburg and use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. The ''Garrison State'' is a state dominated by the military-industrial complex. President Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that a dee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Lasswell
Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902December 18, 1978) was an American political scientist and communications theorist. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics and was a PhD student at the University of Chicago. He was a professor of law at Yale University. He studied at the Universities of London, Geneva, Paris, and Berlin in the 1920s . He served as president of the American Political Science Association (APSA), of the American Society of International Law and of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). He has been described as a "one-man university" whose "competence in, and contributions to, anthropology, communications, economics, law, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry and sociology are enough to make him a political scientist in the model of classical Greece." According to a biographical memorial written by Gabriel Almond at the time of Lasswell's death and published by the National Academies of Sciences in 1987, Lasswell "ranked among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Villages In The Thirteenth Century
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Homans
George Caspar Homans (August 11, 1910 – May 29, 1989) was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, and a major contributor to the social exchange theory. Homans is best known for his research in social behavior and his works ''The Human Group'', ''Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms'', his Exchange Theory and the many different propositions he made to explain social behavior. Biography George C. Homans was born in Boston on August 11, 1910, and grew up in a little house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Robert Homans and Abigail Adams-Homans. George did not talk about the Adamses, yet had distinctively visible features in his skull that came from the Adamses. Personal life Homans attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, from 1923 to 1928. From his autobiography (Homans 1984), Homans entered Harvard College in 1928 with a concentration in English and American literature. During his undergraduate years, he pursued poetry and had devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Myth Of The Negro Past
''The Myth of the Negro Past'' is a 1941 monograph by Melville J. Herskovits intended to debunk the myth that African Americans lost their African culture due to their experience of slavery. The book was the first publication of the Carnegie Corporation's Study of the American Negro and took 15 years to research. Herskovits argued that African Americans had retained their heritage from Africa in music, art, social structure, family life, religion, and speech patterns. The book became controversial because it was feared its arguments could be used by proponents of racial segregation Racial segregation is the systematic separation of people into race (human classification), racial or other Ethnicity, ethnic groups in daily life. Racial segregation can amount to the international crime of apartheid and a crimes against hum ... to prove that African Americans could not be assimilated into mainstream American society.Gershenhorn, p. 93-94 References Bibliography * * Furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melville J
Melville may refer to: Places Antarctica *Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands) * Melville Peak, King George Island * Melville Glacier, Graham Land * Melville Highlands, Laurie Island * Melville Point, Marie Byrd Land Australia *Cape Melville, Queensland *City of Melville, Western Australia, the local government authority *Electoral district of Melville, Western Australia * Melville Bay, Northern Territory *Melville Island, Northern Territory *Melville, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth Canada *Melville, Saskatchewan, a city *Melville (electoral district), Saskatchewan, a federal electoral district *Melville (provincial electoral district), Saskatchewan *Melville, a community within the town of Caledon, Ontario *Melville Peninsula, Nunavut * Melville Sound, Nunavut *Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut) * Melville Island (Nova Scotia), in Halifax Harbour * Melville Cove, Halifax, in Halifax Harbour *Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ritzer
George Ritzer (born October 14, 1940) is an American sociologist, professor, and author who has mainly studied globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern/postmodern social theory. His concept of McDonaldization draws upon Max Weber's idea of rationalization through the lens of the fast food industry. He coined the term after writing ''The McDonaldization of Society'' (1993), which is among the best selling monographs in the history of American sociology. Ritzer has written many general sociology books, including ''Introduction to Sociology'' (2012) and ''Essentials to Sociology'' (2014), and modern/postmodern social theory textbooks. Many of his works have been translated into over 20 languages, with over a dozen translations of ''The McDonaldization of Society'' alone''.'' Ritzer is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park. Biography Early life Ritzer was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in upper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
