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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131642203321

Autore

Amann Anton

Titolo

Soziologie in interdisziplinären Netzwerken : Leopold Rosenmayr gewidmet / / Anton Amann, Gerhard Majce (Hrsg.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Böhlau, 2005

[Vienna] : , : Böhlau, , [2005]

2005

ISBN

9783205772804 (PDF ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Aged

Gerontology - Social aspects - Congresses

Ethnology - Congresses

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references

Sommario/riassunto

Extensive considerations are imperative to address the increasingly urgent social and cultural issues that national societies encounter within the process of emergent global expansion. With respect to sociology, this requirement applies to images of disciplinary self-conception and the formulation of scientific tasks, to relationships with other disciplines, with politics and practice. Likewise, it relates to what has been seen to give meaning to the theoretically and methodically established delimitations of object spaces and research areas. Not least, such issues impact the societal role adopted by the social sciences, associated over the past two decades with the notion of scientific "crisis". The issues that bridge the discussions of such transitions in the present anthology refer to the entwinements of theory and empirical work, aging and generational research, areas of development studies and internationalization. They also deal with the life course and quality of life, the gender division of labour, health and prevention, as well as epidemiological and ethnological-sociological case studies in Africa. Quite simply, we are coming to perceive a



transitional situation in various respects. Taking up the above transitional perspectives, authors from Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria - including C. Attias-Donfut, U. Beck, M. Kohli, M. Johnson, U. Lehr, L. Rosenmary and others - develop analyses and Suggestions that serve to determine anew the role of interdisciplinarity in sociology. These scholars have identified a substantial deficiency in theory, accompanied by bursting quantities of detailed empirical material in various fields of research, and propose to realign research objectives. The broad perspectives plotted in this volume provide the grounds for further scientific debate.