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Record Nr.

UNINA9910258355203321

Autore

Fleck C

Titolo

Sociology in Austria since 1945 / / by C. Fleck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-43587-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Collana

Sociology Transformed

Disciplina

306.094

Soggetti

Ethnology—Europe

Higher education

Educational sociology 

Education and sociology

Educational sociology

Political sociology

Sociology

European Culture

Higher Education

Sociology of Education

Political Sociology

Sociology, general

History

Austria

Österreich

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Even after 1945 the re-established Second Republic did not dismiss professors promoted during the Nazi period, and failed to invite exiled academics to return



home. The author argues that the result has been a continuation of favouritism and conformism, with compliance to political regimes sanctioned at the expense of meritocracy and that in the light of this chequered past we should celebrate instances of de-institutionalization.