The ''Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology)'' is a German

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for

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

. It has an empirical focus on

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, both qualitatively and

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, often in the tradition of

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's "''Verstehende Soziologie''" (Interpretive Sociology). Articles are usually published in German with an abstract in English.

History

The journal's roots go back to the ''Kölner Vierteljahreshefte für Sozialwissenschaften (Cologne Quarterly of Social Sciences)'', founded in 1921 by the German sociologist

Leopold von Wiese Leopold Max Walther von Wiese und Kaiserswaldau (2 December 1876, Glatz, German Empire – 11 January 1969, Cologne, West Germany) was a German sociologist and economist, as well as professor and chairman of the German Sociological Association ...

. Both journals were discontinued in 1934. Other editors of the Kölner Vierteljahrshefte für Soziologie included Theodor Brauer, Christian Eckert, and Hugo Lindemann. After

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it was again von Wiese who refounded the journal as ”Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie” in 1948. Under his successor

René König René König (5 July 1906 – 21 March 1992) was a German sociologist. He was very influential on West German sociology after 1949. Born in Magdeburg, he 1925 took up Philosophy, Psychology, Ethnology, and Islamic Studies at the Universities of ...

, the quarterly soon expanded to

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subjects, which was reflected by the once again changed name. Editors of the journal are Cornelia Kristen (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), Thomas Schwinn (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) and Michael Wagner (Universität zu Köln).

External links

* Sociology journals German-language journals Publications established in 1921 Social psychology journals Quarterly journals

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