Research Tasks of West German Sociology of the Family: The Development and Present Situation of Postwar Schools of Sociology

  • Three major postwar schools of sociology in the Federal Republic of Germany are discussed: (1) Rene Konig, leader of the Cologne school, conceived of the family as a group or system, and demonstrated the theoretical relevance of sociology of the family for general sociology. (2) Helmut Schelsky considered the family as an institution and investigated changes in the German family since World War II, using 180 >family monographs<; he perceived the basis of official family policy to be the ideologization of family stability. (3) Max Horkheimer and Erich FROMM (the Frankfurt school) examined the aspect of authority in the relationship between soci-ety and the family; questions of authority in the family were studied to determine their effect on socialization processes and on women's opportunities for emancipation. Three phases in the development of West German research on the family since 1945 are identified by Heidi Rosenbaum: a surge of progress around 1950, followed by a decline, and then renewed interest in the 1960s.

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Author:S. Yamamoto
Parent Title (Japanese):Soshioroji, Vol. 25 (No. 3, March 1981), pp. 73-89.
Document Type:Articles
Language:Japanese
Year of first Publication:1981
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:no copy existent / keine Kopie vorhanden
IdNo:Yamamoto_S_1981
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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