German "public sociology" from 1945 until 1989

2004年，迈克尔·布拉沃伊在美国社会学界掀起了一场激烈的争论，并引起了国际社会学界的极大关注。此外，在其他社会科学，即政治科学或经济学中，也表达了类似的目标。在美国社会学中，这种讨论导致了（重新）发现几乎被遗忘的作者，Burawoy将其描述为美国社会学的公众形象的恢复。在德国，公共社会学的争论多年来没有引起注意，但它有助于（重新）发现以前被忽视的社会学传统。例如，1945年后，德国的社会学家一致认为，社会学应该努力接触更广泛的公众。但1968年以后，这种社会学的影响力不断减弱。然而，德国社会学史却忽视了早期社会学家的态度，因为它集中在1945年以后的不同社会学流派。此外，自1968年以来，该学科的历史至今尚未审查。因此，该项目的目的是描述德国公共社会学从1945年到1989年的历史，以及1968年后失去影响力的原因。特别是论文应审查，这是一个具有讽刺意味的，非预期的效果，1968年的一代，使用新的来源，如Audiovisuellen Quellenfundus zur deutschen Soziologie nach 1945和赫尔穆特Schelsky分别拉尔夫Daisdorf文件。这一学科历史上的新面貌应该是合法的，并加强了经常被污名化的公共社会学，自2012年以来，DGS公开的倡议正式支持了公共社会学。

With his call for public sociology, that is a sociology directed at the general public, Michael Burawoy initiated an intense debate in American sociology in 2004, which received great attention in international sociology. Moreover, in other social sciences i.e. political science or in economics, similar aims have been expressed. In American sociology this discussion led to the (re)discovery of authors who had almost been forgotten, Burawoy describes this as recovering of the Public Face of U.S. Sociology. In Germany no attention was paid to the debate on public sociology for a number of years, but it can help to (re)discover previously overlooked traditions in sociology. After 1945, for example, the sociologists in Germany agreed that sociology should try to reach a wider public. But after 1968 this type of sociology were constantly losing influence. The German history of sociology has, however, neglected the attitude of the early sociologists because it concentrated on the different sociological schools after 1945. Furthermore, the history of the discipline since 1968 has not been examined so far. The aim of the project is therefore to describe the history of German public sociology from 1945 to 1989 and the reasons for its loss of influence after 1968. Especially the thesis shall be examined that it was a ironic, non-intended effect of the 1968 generation, using new sources like the Audiovisuellen Quellenfundus zur deutschen Soziologie nach 1945 and the Helmut Schelsky respectively Ralf Dahrendorf Papers. This new look on the history of the discipline is supposed to legitimate and strengthen the often stigmatized public sociology that has been officially supported by the initiative DGS goes public since 2012.