社会学的ロマン主義
アメリカ社会学研究の一節
1967 年 17 巻 3 号 p. 73-87
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1967 年 17 巻 3 号 p. 73-87
What is meant by the Sociological Romanticism? (1) It means a kind of bias which may be intrinsic to the sociological thoughts and (2) this type of bias is best expressed in the nostalgia of Gemeinschaft. The Romanticism originally began as a reaction against the French Enlightment. The sociological thought has a romantic-conservative twist and may even be considered as critique of the traditional liberal ideal of individualism.
Such a romantic-conservative twist, I believe, is not unrelated to current sociological researchs on the so-called “rediscovery of the primary group” in American sociology. In order to understand the Sociological Romanticism, we must first take note of a general trend in sociological research which has been called the rediscovery of the primary group. Most of these researches were carried on, during the middle 1930's and its powerful impetus came from the famous Hawthorne project.
This essay is an attempt to explore main currents of American sociology since the 1930's from the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge and, applied to the idea of Sociological Romanticism, provides some guidance in considering the history of American sociological thoughts.
