The Individual and Society: Reflections on the concept of homo sociologicus

Abstract

The book goes back to some of the questions that Ralf Dahrendorf formulated more than half a century ago. At the time, Homo Sociologus found that a certain simplified concept of what a person is always contained in the basis of individual social sciences (often as a concealed assumption).

The individual chapters of the book discuss the question of what image of man contemporary sociology creates.

Keywords

• sociology
• historical sociology
• sociological theory
• individual
• society
• history
• social role
• action
• structure
• individualism
• holism.