The History of the German Sociological Association as an Organizational History: From the early Discourse Networks of Social Scientists to German Reunification in 1989/90

该项目调查了DGS从1909年成立到1989/90年在建立一种社会知识形式方面所发挥的作用，这种社会知识追求客观，无价值的见解，而不是实际的，道德的见解;此外，它还探索了这些发展背后的结构。研究人员从一个假设开始，即学术组织是一种形式，它对这种理论上的、无价值的学术社会知识的连接问题做出反应。后者不仅必须与知识分子、教会或大众媒体的承诺知识相关，而且还必须与政治和经济的实践知识相关。本研究的核心问题是：DGS网络结构与社会学知识结构之间的关系，以及DGS作为一个组织在这种关系中所扮演的角色。1909年至1989/90年间，网络组织和知识的格局发生了怎样的变化？在这些问题的背景下，这里采用的手段，以资助调查，评估和分析收集的作品源材料和在线DGS-personal数据库。

The project investigates the role that the DGS has played from when it was first set up in 1909 until 1989/90 in establishing a form of social knowledge that pursues objective, value-free insights over practical, ethical ones; moreover, it explores the structures that lay behind These developments. The researchers started from the hypothesis that a scholarly organization is a form that reacts to the problem of connectivity with this kind of theoretical, value-free scholarly social knowledge. The latter must assert its relevance not only for thecommitted knowledge of intellectuals, the Church, or mass media, but also for the practical knowledge of politics and the economy. The core questions of this project are: What is the relationship between the structure of the DGS-network and the structure of sociologicalknowledge and the role of DGS had played as an organization in this relationship? How did the constellation of network organization and knowledge has changed between 1909 and 1989/90? Against the background of these questions here means are applied which serve to finance Investigation, evaluation and analysis of works collectedsource materials and a online DGS-personal database.