Fritz K Ringer
Biographic Data
| ID | 296815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fritz K Ringer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fritz K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ringer |
| SIGNATURE | RINGER F K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Comparison and causal explanation
Since the classical authors of the nineteenth century, the explanation of macro‐social phenomena has been considered as the essential epistemic achievement, hence the raison d’être, of comparative analysis in the social sciences. In practice, however, the claims of comparative social enquiry for providing convincing explanations are not easily kept. Their realization depends upon quasi‐ontological understandings of causation, and on varying conce…
Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography
La segmentation des systèmes d'enseignement: Les réformes de l'enseignement secondaire français et prussien, 1865-1920
La segmentation désigne la subdivision des systèmes d'enseignement en écoles et programmes parallèles se distinguant à la fois par les cursus et l'origine sociale de leurs élèves. Elle affecte de façon cruciale la définition des rôles sociaux liée aux différences d'éducation. La comparaison des transformations des systèmes d'enseignement prussien et français entre 1865 et 1920 permet d'étudier les implications sociales de la subdivision de l'ense…
Max Weber's Liberalism
There are a variety of possible approaches to Weber's political thought. One can emphasize his class-conscious attack upon the new East Elbian agrarian capitalists, or his commitment to a politics of responsibility, in which the probable consequences of political proposals are explicitly assessed and announced. Wolfgang Mommsen has focused upon Weber's nationalism, almost to the exclusion of other aspects of his work. Jürgen Habermas has suggeste…
Max Weber on Causal Analysis, Interpretation, and Comparison
Max Weber's methodological writings offered a model of singular causal analysis that anticipated key elements of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy of the social and cultural sciences. The model accurately portrayed crucial steps and dimensions of causal reasoning in these disciplines, outlining a dynamic and probabilistic conception of historical processes, counterfactual reasoning, and comparison as a substitute for counterfactual argument.…
The uncertain sciences
Commentary
Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences
Theories of History and of Education in Germany and France During the 19th Century
Max Weber’s Methodology
In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to Weber's work, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German intellectual debates of his day, and demonstrating how Weber was able to bridge the divide between humanistic interpretation and causal explanation in historical and cultural studies
Max Weber's methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences
At a time when historical and cultural analyses are being subjected to all manner of ideological and disciplinary prodding and poking, the work of Max Weber, the brilliant social theorist and one of the most creative intellectual forces in the twentieth century, is especially relevant. In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to the work of Weber, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German in…
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy
Max Weber's Comparative-Historical Sociology
Interpreting Cultural Crisis: Social History Confronts Humanities Education
Le debat sur l'enseignement des sciences humaines dans les ecoles secondaires et les universites a interesse les historiens des 1960 aux Etats-Unis. Deux des plus importants travaux realises sur le sujet par P.N. Stearns et F.K. Ringer sont commentes dans cet article
History, Historians, and the Dynamics of Change
Max Weber's Sociology of Intellectuals
Max Weber on the origins and character of the Western city
The Decline of the German Mandarins after Twenty-Five Years
When Fritz Ringer published The Decline of the German Mandarins in 1969, the history of education and of the professions occupied a very modest position in the historiography of modern Germany. In the Federal Republic, the reprinting in the mid-1960s of Friedrich Paulsen's History of Scholarly Instruction in the German Schools and Universities and German Universities and University Study, both dating from the turn of the century, highlighted the …
Education and Citizenship
The author looks at education debates on the enrollment increases in secondary education in Germany and France around 1900. In Germany, the theory of ‘Bildung’ was deployed against the threat of meritocratic reform, while in France educationists pleaded for a reform in the ‘spirit of the Revolution’. So the idea of modern democratic citizenship was much more explicitly a concept of French than of German reformers. The latter pleaded for ‘natural …
Fields of knowledge: French academic culture in comparative perspective, 1890-1920
A Sociography of German Academics, 1863–1938
During the 1950s, a team of Göttingen sociologists led by Helmut Plessner undertook a systematic survey of all faculty who taught at German university-level institutions during one or more of eleven selected sample years between 1864 and 1953. Drawing upon university catalogues ( Vorlesungsverzeichnisse ), scholarly handbooks ( Minerva, Kürschners , Poggendorfs), and a variety of encyclopedias, members of the Göttingen group collected biographica…
Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology . Wolf Lepenies , R. J. Hollingdale
Staat und Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland und Frankreich 1871-1914. Situation und Werk von Geschichtsprofessoren an den Universitaten Berlin, Munchen, Paris
The decline of the German mandarins: The German academic community, 1890-1933
Rejoinder to Charles Lemert and Martin Jay
Max Weber: An Intellectual Biography
Max Weber's methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences
At a time when historical and cultural analyses are being subjected to all manner of ideological and disciplinary prodding and poking, the work of Max Weber, the brilliant social theorist and one of the most creative intellectual forces in the twentieth century, is especially relevant. In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to the work of Weber, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German in…
Education and society in modern Europe
Max Weber on Causal Analysis, Interpretation, and Comparison
Max Weber's methodological writings offered a model of singular causal analysis that anticipated key elements of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy of the social and cultural sciences. The model accurately portrayed crucial steps and dimensions of causal reasoning in these disciplines, outlining a dynamic and probabilistic conception of historical processes, counterfactual reasoning, and comparison as a substitute for counterfactual argument.…
The intellectual field, intellectual history, and the sociology of knowledge
La segmentation des systèmes d'enseignement: Les réformes de l'enseignement secondaire français et prussien, 1865-1920
La segmentation désigne la subdivision des systèmes d'enseignement en écoles et programmes parallèles se distinguant à la fois par les cursus et l'origine sociale de leurs élèves. Elle affecte de façon cruciale la définition des rôles sociaux liée aux différences d'éducation. La comparaison des transformations des systèmes d'enseignement prussien et français entre 1865 et 1920 permet d'étudier les implications sociales de la subdivision de l'ense…
Fields of knowledge: French academic culture in comparative perspective, 1890-1920
Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences
A Sociography of German Academics, 1863–1938
During the 1950s, a team of Göttingen sociologists led by Helmut Plessner undertook a systematic survey of all faculty who taught at German university-level institutions during one or more of eleven selected sample years between 1864 and 1953. Drawing upon university catalogues ( Vorlesungsverzeichnisse ), scholarly handbooks ( Minerva, Kürschners , Poggendorfs), and a variety of encyclopedias, members of the Göttingen group collected biographica…
Bildung: The social and ideological context of the German historical tradition
Higher Education in Germany in the Nineteenth Century
Perhaps because, at least since the beginning of the nineteenth century, wealth has played so great a part in class differentiation in Europe, the more indirect effects of educational differences upon the status and functions of various social groups have sometimes been underestimated. In a highly industrialized society, learning does indeed rank far below wealth among the causes of social stratification. In countries which are still passing thro…
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy
Comparison and causal explanation
Since the classical authors of the nineteenth century, the explanation of macro‐social phenomena has been considered as the essential epistemic achievement, hence the raison d’être, of comparative analysis in the social sciences. In practice, however, the claims of comparative social enquiry for providing convincing explanations are not easily kept. Their realization depends upon quasi‐ontological understandings of causation, and on varying conce…
Causal Analysis in Historical Reasoning
Historians have always talked about the causes of events, or of changes in the course of events. With or without the benefit of formal philosophy, they have argued about the roles of various historical factors, about underlying and precipitating causes, immediate and long-term effects. They have discussed the origins of wars and revolutions, the impact of economic changes upon social relations, the consequences of constitutional innovations, or t…
The Education of Elites in Modern Europe
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my then graduate students David O. Justice, David Kelly and I took random samples of the major biographical encyclopedias for Germany, France, England and the United States. (1) The entries we considered were those for males born 1810 to 1899, who might have reached advanced educational institutions between about 1830 and 1930. (2) What we were chiefly interested in is the level and type of education enjoyed by these eminent me…
The German Academic Community, 1870-1920
The Decline of the German Mandarins after Twenty-Five Years
When Fritz Ringer published The Decline of the German Mandarins in 1969, the history of education and of the professions occupied a very modest position in the historiography of modern Germany. In the Federal Republic, the reprinting in the mid-1960s of Friedrich Paulsen's History of Scholarly Instruction in the German Schools and Universities and German Universities and University Study, both dating from the turn of the century, highlighted the …
Education and Citizenship
The author looks at education debates on the enrollment increases in secondary education in Germany and France around 1900. In Germany, the theory of ‘Bildung’ was deployed against the threat of meritocratic reform, while in France educationists pleaded for a reform in the ‘spirit of the Revolution’. So the idea of modern democratic citizenship was much more explicitly a concept of French than of German reformers. The latter pleaded for ‘natural …
Staat und Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland und Frankreich 1871-1914. Situation und Werk von Geschichtsprofessoren an den Universitaten Berlin, Munchen, Paris
Differences and Cross-National Similarities among Mandarins
In response to the preceding article, Professor Sven-Eric Liedman's very interesting critique of myThe Decline of the German Mandarins, let me begin by describing how I selected and approached my sources for that work. I first studied printed collections of speeches given at various German universities during the Weimar period, which I happened to encounter in the library. I next made a list of all nonscientists above the rank of instructor who t…
Education and Society in Modern Europe
Higher Education in Germany in the Nineteenth Century
Perhaps because, at least since the beginning of the nineteenth century, wealth has played so great a part in class differentiation in Europe, the more indirect effects of educational differences upon the status and functions of various social groups have sometimes been underestimated. In a highly industrialized society, learning does indeed rank far below wealth among the causes of social stratification. In countries which are still passing thro…
Die deutsch-Französische Tragödie, 1848-1864: Politische Beziehungen und Psychologisches Verhältnis. Rudolf Buchner
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
German Mandarins and Weimar Culture
Mosse's Germans and Jews
Prophets and Patrons: The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences. Terry Nichols Clark
Ecole et Societe Dans la France d'Ancien Regime
Problems in the History of Higher Education: A Review Article
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The Plessner Survey as a Source in the History and Sociology of German Learning: A Research Note
The Education of Elites in Modern Europe
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my then graduate students David O. Justice, David Kelly and I took random samples of the major biographical encyclopedias for Germany, France, England and the United States. (1) The entries we considered were those for males born 1810 to 1899, who might have reached advanced educational institutions between about 1830 and 1930. (2) What we were chiefly interested in is the level and type of education enjoyed by these eminent me…
The German Academic Community, 1870-1920
Education and society in modern Europe
Education and Society in Modern Europe
Ernst Cassirer: The Dilemma of a Liberal Intellectual in Germany, 1914-1933 , by David R. Lipton
Education and Society in Modern Europe
Education and Society in Modern Europe
A New Vitality: The History of Education
Science, Society, and Ideology in France: I. The University The Emergence of Modern Universities in France, 1863-1914 . George Weisz
Max Weber and German Politics, 1890-1920. Wolfgang J. Mommsen , Michael S. Steinberg
Differences and Cross-National Similarities among Mandarins
In response to the preceding article, Professor Sven-Eric Liedman's very interesting critique of myThe Decline of the German Mandarins, let me begin by describing how I selected and approached my sources for that work. I first studied printed collections of speeches given at various German universities during the Weimar period, which I happened to encounter in the library. I next made a list of all nonscientists above the rank of instructor who t…
Supply and Demand: The "Two Histories" of English Education
Bildung: The social and ideological context of the German historical tradition
The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction, 1870-1920
Introduction Part I. Concepts and hypotheses 1. The process of systematisation: the case of German secondary education 2. On segmentation in modern European educational systems: the case of French secondary education, 1865-1920 3. Systematisation and segmentation in education: the case of England Part II. Structural Change and Social Reproduction in England 4. Defining institutions: the grammar schools and the systematisation of English secondary…
Causal Analysis in Historical Reasoning
Historians have always talked about the causes of events, or of changes in the course of events. With or without the benefit of formal philosophy, they have argued about the roles of various historical factors, about underlying and precipitating causes, immediate and long-term effects. They have discussed the origins of wars and revolutions, the impact of economic changes upon social relations, the consequences of constitutional innovations, or t…
Sociology (33 works) · Political science (27 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · History (16 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · German (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (10 works) · Social science (10 works)