- İstanbul Üniversitesi İktisat Fakültesi Mecmuası
- Vol: 23 Issue: 3-4
- Professor Kessler's Place In Turkish History of Sociology and His Publications In Turkey
Professor Kessler's Place In Turkish History of Sociology and His Publications In Turkey
Authors : Cavit Tütengil
Pages : 308-311
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Publication Date : 2015-08-28
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Professor Gerhard Kessler taught sociology between 1933 -1951 at Istanbul University in the Faculties of Law, Letters and Economics. With his death in Germany, we have lost a foreign sociologist who has occupied a place in Turkish history of sociology. In terms of the sociological schools of A. Comte and F. Le Play, sociology in Turkey enters an era of growth with the Turkish representatives of E. Durkheim and E. Demolins. The beginning phase can be detected in our various intellectual endeavours prior to «Sociologie» and in the first influences of French sociology in our history of thought 1 • It. can be said that influences originating from English and German sociologies, to some extent appeared as an opposition against Durkheim's sociology. In the same way in the following years, we, also observe the landmarks of American sociologyKeywords : Professor, Kessler's, Place