Theodor Geiger

Pioneer of Sociology in Denmark

Bibliographic Data

ID2300480
AuthorsTorben Agersnap (Copenhagen Business School, Blaagaardsgade, Copenhagen, Danemark, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume43
Issue4
Pages325-330
Publication date2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169930004300405
OpenAlexW2038170612
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

Theodor Geiger grew up in Germany and emigrated to Denmark in 1933, threatened by the Nazi regime. He worked at the University of Copenhagen 1933-38 and was the first Professor of Sociology at the University of Aarhus 1938-52. He spent 3 years in exile in Sweden. Geiger is an important figure in German and Scandinavian sociology and also known in English-speaking countries. He was a prolific teacher and writer. Throughout his life as a sociologist Geiger combined theoretical with empirical interest. If he rejected all speculation without a factual basis, he showed an equally strong disdain for empiricism without a theoretical foundation (Mayntz 1969). His works cover a broad spectrum of subjects, still of professional interest. such as: the foundation and fundamental concepts of sociology, the education of working-class people, industrial organization, class structure, stratification and mobility, social origin and functions of the intelligentsia, the sociology of law, critics of ideology and the nature of modern mass-society and democracy

Empiricism · Epistemology · Geiger counter · German · Ideology · Intelligentsia · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · German Social Sciences and History · History · Law · Philosophy

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