Product Description: Sociology in Austria has been frequently affected by political developments in the country. This first history of sociology in Austria examines the impact of the break-up of the Habsburg Empire and of two consecutive dictatorships, which destroyed academic freedom by means of forced migration and imprisonment...read more

Product Description: From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterized by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic...read more

Product Description: How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position? This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life...read more

Product Description: "One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced level of aspiration has remained the focus of all subsequent discussions...read more

Product Description: Weder die deutsch- noch die englischsprachige Wissenschaftssoziologie und -forschung haben bislang die Sozialwissenschaften nicht zum Gegenstand ihrer Forschungen gemacht. Der vorliegenden Band versucht an ausgewählten Fragestellungen historische und aktuelle Entwicklungen in verschiedenen sozialwissenschaftlichen Diziplinen zu untersuchen und neue Analyseinstrumente vorzustellen bzw...read more