Bernd Weiler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3999544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernd Weiler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernd |
| FAMILY NAME | Weiler |
| SIGNATURE | WEILER B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Moralization of the Markets
Progress, Idea of
The idea of progress, commonly considered one of the most influential and multifaceted ideas in the philosophy of history, holds that material, political, social, intellectual, and moral conditions have continually and by necessity improved throughout human history and that such an improvement will continue in the foreseeable future. Since the Enlightenment the idea of progress and the controversies concerning its validity and ideological connota…
Mosca, Gaetano (1858–1941)
Along with Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) and Robert Michels (1876–1936), Gaetano Mosca is commonly regarded as the main representative of the so‐called Italian school of elitists. After graduating in law from the university of his hometown, Palermo, Mosca combined the life of a scholar, teaching constitutional law, administrative law, political economy, and political theory at the universities of Turin (1896–1923), Milan (1902–1923), and Rome (1924…
Ratzenhofer, Gustav (1842–1904)
The Viennese‐born Gustav Ratzenhofer is the best‐known representative of the so‐called Austrian Struggle or Conflict School, next to Ludwig Gumplowicz. After only a few years of formal schooling and an apprenticeship as a clockmaker (his father's business), Ratzenhofer entered the Austrian army in 1859. In a highly successful military career he rose to the position of a lieutenant field marshal and, a few years before his retirement, he was also …
Sumner, William Graham (1840–1910)
William G. Sumner is commonly regarded as one of the most influential US social scientists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In histories of sociology he is often portrayed or – some would argue – misportrayed as a conservative apologist for “tooth‐and‐claw” capitalism and as the great social Darwinist antipode to his progressive and reform‐oriented contemporary and fellow countryman L.F. Ward
Anthropology, Cultural and Social: Early History
The traditional subject matter of anthropology (from the Greek anthropos , “human being,” and log‐ , “study of”) has been the study of nonwestern, “exotic,” and “nonliterate” peoples. As in other social sciences and humanities, the beginnings of western anthropology go back to Greco‐Roman antiquity. It was in the wake of the Greek colonization of the Mediterranean world, commencing around 750 bce , that questions arose regarding the history, the …
Radcliffe‐Brown, Alfred R. (1881–1955)
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe‐Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942) are generally considered to be the “founding fathers” of British social anthropology. Born into a poor family in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Radcliffe‐Brown attended King Edward's School and worked in a library in Birmingham before being awarded a scholarship for Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1902. At Cambridge Radcliffe‐Brown, whose interest in the social sciences was allegedly st…
Malinowski, Bronislaw K.(1884–1942)
Bronislaw K. Malinowski and Alfred R. Radcliffe‐Brown are generally regarded as the “founding fathers” of British social anthropology. Born in Cracow, then part of the Austrian province of Galicia, Malinowski studied natural sciences, mathematics, and later psychology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University where his father had been an eminent professor of Slavonic philology and folklore. In his formative years the main intellectual influen…
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism, a highly controversial and protean term, refers to the application of concepts and ideas to the social world which are allegedly derived from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Despite the fact that the so‐called founding fathers of sociology tried to establish the autonomy of their discipline, the often unconscious reliance upon biological concepts and the interpretation of the social order as the outcome of a natural proces…
Gumplowicz, Ludwig (1838–1909)
Around 1900, Ludwig Gumplowicz was internationally regarded as one of the most influential sociological theorists and, together with his fellow countryman Gustav Ratzenhofer (1842–1904), as the leading representative of the so‐called Austrian Struggle or Conflict School. Born into an assimilated Jewish family in the quarter of Kazimierz in the Free State of Cracow, which was incorporated into the Austro‐Hungarian Monarchy in 1846, the young Gumpl…
Boas, Franz (1858–1942)
Franz Boas, born in Minden, Westphalia, is commonly regarded as the most influential figure of American anthropology in the first third of the twentieth century. Raised in an assimilated Jewish family, which had strong sympathies for the liberal ideals of the revolution of 1848, Boas studied natural sciences and mathematics at the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel, graduating in 1881. In a complex intellectual “odyssey” he abandoned his …
Pareto, Vilfredo (1848–1923)
Vilfredo Pareto is famous for his seminal contributions to neoclassical and mathematical economics, his analysis of power, and his inquiry into the psychological and social foundations of human conduct. Born in Paris, where his father, a Genoese marchese , supporter of Mazzini and a civil engineer, lived in political exile, Pareto grew up in a bilingual and liberal aristocratic milieu. Upon his family's return to Italy in the 1850s he received a …
Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism, a highly complex doctrine surrounded by various epistemological, political, and ethical controversies, can be broadly defined as the view that culture is the key variable to explain human diversity and that an individual's behavior, thought, emotion, perception, and sensation are relative to and bound by the culture of the group he or she belongs to. Within this frame of thought, culture is usually conceptualized as a holisti…
Inhalt
Bibliographie
Schlußbemerkung
A. Zur Kritik der Cultural Anthropology am Kulturkonzept der Entwicklungstheoretiker
Einleitung
Backmatter
I. Einige Überlegungen zum "Geist" der Naturwissenschaften in Deutschland in der Zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Einleitende Bemerkungen zur antievolutionistischen Wende
C. Einige zusammenfassende Bemerkungen zur Fortschrittsidee in der "jungen" Anthropologie und zu ihren Vertretern
A. Einführende Bemerkungen
B. Quellen und Analysen zur Gründerzeit der Anthropologie: Die "wilden" Jahre der "jungen" Wissenschaft zwischen 1854 und 1871
Vorwort und Danksagung
Gumplowicz, Ludwig (1838–1909)
Around 1900, Ludwig Gumplowicz was internationally regarded as one of the most influential sociological theorists and, together with his fellow countryman Gustav Ratzenhofer (1842–1904), as the leading representative of the so‐called Austrian Struggle or Conflict School. Born into an assimilated Jewish family in the quarter of Kazimierz in the Free State of Cracow, which was incorporated into the Austro‐Hungarian Monarchy in 1846, the young Gumpl…
Inhalt
Bibliographie
Schlußbemerkung
A. Zur Kritik der Cultural Anthropology am Kulturkonzept der Entwicklungstheoretiker
Einleitung
Backmatter
I. Einige Überlegungen zum "Geist" der Naturwissenschaften in Deutschland in der Zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Einleitende Bemerkungen zur antievolutionistischen Wende
C. Einige zusammenfassende Bemerkungen zur Fortschrittsidee in der "jungen" Anthropologie und zu ihren Vertretern
A. Einführende Bemerkungen
B. Quellen und Analysen zur Gründerzeit der Anthropologie: Die "wilden" Jahre der "jungen" Wissenschaft zwischen 1854 und 1871
Vorwort und Danksagung
B. Zur Kritik der Wiener Schule der Ethnologie am kulturevolutionistischen Bild vom "Wilden" im allgemeinen und vom Feuerlandindianer im besonderen oder: "Am Anfang war das nicht so!"
Die Ordnung des Fortschritts: Zum Aufstieg und Fall der Fortschrittsidee in der »jungen« Anthropologie
Bernd Weiler bietet überraschende Einsichten, was hinter der Formel von der Fortschrittsgläubigkeit als der geistigen Signatur des 19. Jahrhunderts liegt: In einer spannenden wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen und wissenssoziologischen Rekonstruktion wird die fortschrittseuphorische »Gründerzeit« der modernen Anthropologie ab 1850 quellenreich nachgezeichnet und analysiert, wie die nordamerikanische Kulturanthropologie und die Wiener Schule der Ethnolo…
Radcliffe‐Brown, Alfred R. (1881–1955)
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe‐Brown and Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942) are generally considered to be the “founding fathers” of British social anthropology. Born into a poor family in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, Radcliffe‐Brown attended King Edward's School and worked in a library in Birmingham before being awarded a scholarship for Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1902. At Cambridge Radcliffe‐Brown, whose interest in the social sciences was allegedly st…
Malinowski, Bronislaw K.(1884–1942)
Bronislaw K. Malinowski and Alfred R. Radcliffe‐Brown are generally regarded as the “founding fathers” of British social anthropology. Born in Cracow, then part of the Austrian province of Galicia, Malinowski studied natural sciences, mathematics, and later psychology and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University where his father had been an eminent professor of Slavonic philology and folklore. In his formative years the main intellectual influen…
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism, a highly controversial and protean term, refers to the application of concepts and ideas to the social world which are allegedly derived from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Despite the fact that the so‐called founding fathers of sociology tried to establish the autonomy of their discipline, the often unconscious reliance upon biological concepts and the interpretation of the social order as the outcome of a natural proces…
Gumplowicz, Ludwig (1838–1909)
Around 1900, Ludwig Gumplowicz was internationally regarded as one of the most influential sociological theorists and, together with his fellow countryman Gustav Ratzenhofer (1842–1904), as the leading representative of the so‐called Austrian Struggle or Conflict School. Born into an assimilated Jewish family in the quarter of Kazimierz in the Free State of Cracow, which was incorporated into the Austro‐Hungarian Monarchy in 1846, the young Gumpl…
Boas, Franz (1858–1942)
Franz Boas, born in Minden, Westphalia, is commonly regarded as the most influential figure of American anthropology in the first third of the twentieth century. Raised in an assimilated Jewish family, which had strong sympathies for the liberal ideals of the revolution of 1848, Boas studied natural sciences and mathematics at the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, and Kiel, graduating in 1881. In a complex intellectual “odyssey” he abandoned his …
Pareto, Vilfredo (1848–1923)
Vilfredo Pareto is famous for his seminal contributions to neoclassical and mathematical economics, his analysis of power, and his inquiry into the psychological and social foundations of human conduct. Born in Paris, where his father, a Genoese marchese , supporter of Mazzini and a civil engineer, lived in political exile, Pareto grew up in a bilingual and liberal aristocratic milieu. Upon his family's return to Italy in the 1850s he received a …
Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism, a highly complex doctrine surrounded by various epistemological, political, and ethical controversies, can be broadly defined as the view that culture is the key variable to explain human diversity and that an individual's behavior, thought, emotion, perception, and sensation are relative to and bound by the culture of the group he or she belongs to. Within this frame of thought, culture is usually conceptualized as a holisti…
The Moralization of the Markets
Progress, Idea of
The idea of progress, commonly considered one of the most influential and multifaceted ideas in the philosophy of history, holds that material, political, social, intellectual, and moral conditions have continually and by necessity improved throughout human history and that such an improvement will continue in the foreseeable future. Since the Enlightenment the idea of progress and the controversies concerning its validity and ideological connota…
Mosca, Gaetano (1858–1941)
Along with Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) and Robert Michels (1876–1936), Gaetano Mosca is commonly regarded as the main representative of the so‐called Italian school of elitists. After graduating in law from the university of his hometown, Palermo, Mosca combined the life of a scholar, teaching constitutional law, administrative law, political economy, and political theory at the universities of Turin (1896–1923), Milan (1902–1923), and Rome (1924…
Ratzenhofer, Gustav (1842–1904)
The Viennese‐born Gustav Ratzenhofer is the best‐known representative of the so‐called Austrian Struggle or Conflict School, next to Ludwig Gumplowicz. After only a few years of formal schooling and an apprenticeship as a clockmaker (his father's business), Ratzenhofer entered the Austrian army in 1859. In a highly successful military career he rose to the position of a lieutenant field marshal and, a few years before his retirement, he was also …
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