Alfred Vierkandt was a German

Germany

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 sociologist, ethnographer, social psychologist, social philosopher and philosopher of history. He is known for a broad and phenomenological

Phenomenology (psychology)

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 Gesellschaftslehre promulgated in the 1920s, and for his formal sociology

He first studied science and philosophy at Leipzig University. He habilitated at Brunswick

Braunschweig

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. 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 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, in 1909. He was made to retire in 1934.

Work

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