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Alfred Vierkandt (4 June 1867 – 24 April 1953) was a German sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist,

social philosopher Social philosophy examines questions about the foundations of social institutions, social behavior, and interpretations of society in terms of ethical values rather than empirical relations. Social philosophers emphasize understanding the social c ...

and philosopher of history. He is known for a broad and

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''Gesellschaftslehre'' promulgated in the 1920s, and for his

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. Vierkandt was born in Hamburg. He first studied science and philosophy at Leipzig University. He habilitated at Brunswick. He was first at '' Dozent'' in ethnology, becoming eventually in 1913 Professor of Sociology at the University of Berlin. He was one of the founders of the

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, in 1909. He was made to retire in 1934. He died, aged 85, in Berlin.

Work

*''Naturvölker und Kulturvölker. Ein Beitrag zur Socialpsychologie'' (1896) *''Die Stetigkeit im Kulturwandel: eine soziologische Studie'' (1908) *''Allgemeine Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsgeschichte'' (1911) with

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and others *''Machtverhältnis und Machtmoral'' (1916) *''Staat und Gesellschaft in der Gegenwart: Eine Einführung in das staatsbürgerliche Denken und in die politische Bewegung unserer Zeit'' (1916) * 'Programm einer formalen Gesellschaftslehre' rogram for a formal theory of society ''Kölner Vierteljahrshefte'', ser. A, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Cologne, 1921) *''Gesellschaftslehre: Hauptprobleme der philosophischen Soziologie'' (1923) *''Der Dualismus im modernen Weltbild'' (1923) *''Der geistig-sittliche Gehalt des neueren Naturrechtes'' (1927) *''Allgemeine Verfassungs und Verwaltungsgeschichte '' (1928) *''Handwörterbuch der Soziologie'' (1931) editor *''Familie, Volk und Staat in ihren gesellschaftlichen Lebensvorgängen: Eine Einführung in die Gesellschaftslehre'' (1936) *''Kleine Gesellschaftslehre'' (1949)

References

*''Gegenwartsprobleme der Soziologie'' (1949) Festschrift *Paul Hochstim (1966) ''Alfred Vierkandt : a sociological critique'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Vierkandt, Alfred German sociologists German eugenicists 1867 births 1953 deaths Leipzig University alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin German male writers