General Sociological System

…He returned to West Germany immediately after the Second World War, and as a senior figure in the academic world, he fostered a network of people in empirical social research such as R. König and E. Scheuch at the University of Cologne. His major theoretical work, “The General System of Sociology” (2nd edition, 1933), divided sociology into relational science and representation science, and analyzed social processes such as competition, conflict, and conflict, as well as social representations of groups and organizations. His greatest achievement was to create a trend in empirical and empirical sociology in opposition to the idealistic tendency rooted in the German philosophical tradition. …

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…第2次大戦後ただちに西ドイツに復帰，学界の長老としてケルン大学にケーニヒR.König，ショイヒE.Scheuchら経験的社会研究empirische Sozialforschungの人脈を育成した。《一般社会学体系》(第2版，1933)は理論上の主著で，社会学を関係学Beziehungslehreと形象学Gebildelehreに分かち，競争･対立･葛藤などの社会過程や，集団･団体などの社会形象を分析した。ドイツの哲学的伝統に根ざす観念論的傾向に抗して，実証的･経験的な社会学の流れをつくり出した点に最大の功績がある。…

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