Geschichte des Institutes
Since 1963, i.e. for 50 years, sociological teaching and research has been carried out continuously at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. On this occasion, the first presentation of sociological activities at the university has now been published, covering the period from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Since 1963, i.e. for 50 years, sociological teaching and research has been conducted continuously at the Martin Luther University. At the same time, 2013 marks the eightieth anniversary of the expulsion of the first professor of sociology at the University of Halle: In 1933, Prof. Friedrich Hertz had to leave the Saale city at risk of his life. Halle sociology looks back on an eventful history. In total, it required four attempts to institutionalize it: starting with the establishment of the first sociology chair in 1930 (until 1933) and the first institute for sociology in 1947 (until 1949), through a “Commission for Concrete-Sociological Research” (1963), from which the sociology academic area at the Faculty of Economics emerged (1965-1990), up to the re-establishment of the current institute for Sociology 1992. This story has now been examined and presented for the first time.
Part of the presentation is also the history of Halle's sociology since the end of the 19th century, i.e. the increasing focus on sociological questions in political economy and political science. The treatment of the post-war period begins with Max Gustav Lange and Leo Kofler, who worked in Halle at the time before they both fled the GDR. Since the 1970s, the University of Halle was one of only three universities in the GDR where it was possible to study sociology directly. In addition to the work of the scientific field of sociology, sociological work was also carried out at several other institutions at the Martin Luther University in the tenth years of the GDR, for example in literary, medical or sports sociology. Therefore, these activities are also documented. Peer Pasternack / Reinhold Sackmann (ed.): Four attempts: Sociology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Building blocks for the local biography of the subject from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century,
Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2013, 256 S.
ISBN 978-3-95462-070-8.
€ 14,95
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