| Abstrakt: |
The article presents analysis of contemporary sociology in Austria. Austrian Sociology is probably one of the most unknown of all national schools. Diligent search in histories of sociology reveals that sociologists of Austrian descent are being counted in a variety of ways but almost never as Austrians. This is not the place to trace the history of this development, however, we should like to attempt a theoretical explanation for this obvious neglect. Regardless of the multitude of races, peoples, nations, folks, groups, hordes, tribes and even states which have at some time or the other settled, or crossed Europe and the Alps, the Appenines, the Pyrenees, its rivers and or crossed Europe being driven by need and greed; in all changes of attitudes expressed in style of life-and-thought, something permanent adheres to that borderline which originally demarcated the Roman Empire, the limes. This borderline did not withstand the onslaught of the barbarians. Nor could one equate the Roman Empire with the later development of the Roman Empire of the German nation. Finally, the Roman Catholic Church expanded far beyond the limes which is roughly the Rhine-Danube line. |
