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AND SOCIOLOGY - by Franz Oppenheimer - in: William Fielding Ogburn, Alexander
Goldenweiser, The Social Sciences and their Interrelations, Cambridge 1927, - Between
sociologists and historians there has existed since the first inception of sociological
ideas, even since the time of Condorcet, a sharp difference, a state of battle, which
grows out of two different sources - a psychological and a scientifico-logical. - The
psychological difference is based on the fact that all the older writing of history viewed
and evaluated events from the standpoint of the upper class. It was, as soon as it had
grown out of the embryonic stage of writing mere annals or chronicles, of three kinds:
first, court historiography, with the clearly set task of glorifying the deeds and
creations of the ruler; or secondly, it was clerical philosophy of history, which
explained events from the standpoint of the ruling church as the carrying out of a divine
plan of salvation, and was for this reason necessarily quietistic, conservative,
anti-revolutionary; or finally, it was history-writing of the third estate, which had
either already gained control of its state or was at least preparing to do so, and if it
had not already attained to complete victory politically, at least it already possessed
sufficient economic means to want political control and to be able to force it in the not
too distant future. On the other hand, the first representatives of sociological thought
viewed things as socialists from below, and this attitude has never been entirely lost by
their successors, as for example Comte, who had primarily bourgeois tendencies. -
opp.uni-wuppertal.de/oppenheimer Proper Government - History is the chronicle of large
scale changes made in civilization. What happens to individuals with respect to
civilization is called 'news'.
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The history of social inventions - Stuart Conger
- The following is extracted from a longer article which first appeared in the Futurist.
Conger was responsible for setting up a Canadian Social Inventions Centre called
Saskatchewan NewStart. This ran on an experimental basis from 1967 to 1972 and focused on
developing new methods of counselling and training adults. - globalideasbank.org |
The Forum for History of Human Science is a
voluntary association of individuals interested in furthering scholarship in the history
of human science. It was established to promote research, education, and scholarship in
the history of human science; to provide a forum for discussion; and to foster interest in
the history of human science among scholars, scientists, students, and the public. -
majbill.vt.edu/history/jones/fhhs/fhhs.htm
The basic question of interest is "Why does
society develop the way that it does?" How did the various political systems develop,
how do different customs and social systems come about. Some specific topics include: what
is globalization and how is it happening, why did industrialization first occur in Europe,
how far will democratization spread and in what forms. This site is our attempt to study
those questions. We present information that looks at long term, large scale changes in
social, political and economic systems at the national and international levels. This site
presents links to sites with theories, approaches, data and research. The principal aim is
to present information that can be used to explain historical change, growth and
development. -gsociology.icaap.org/
Modern History Sourcebook: Joseph A. Schumpeter:
The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918 - For it is always a question, when one speaks of
imperialism, of the assertion of an aggressiveness whose real basis does not lie in the
aims followed at the moment but an aggressiveness in itself. And actually history shows us
people and classes who desire expansion for the sake of expanding, war for the sake of
fighting, domination for the sake of dominating. It values conquest not so much because of
the advantages it brings, which are often more than doubtful, as because it is conquest,
success, activity. Although expansion as self-purpose always needs concrete objects to
activate it and support it, its meaning is not included therein. Hence its tendency toward
the infinite unto the exhaustion of its forces, and its motto: plus ultra. Thus we define:
Imperialism is the object-less disposition of a state to expansion by force without
assigned limits. - fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918schumpeter1.html
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