Mis on sotsioloogia? What is sociology? (in Estonian) (German Edition)

The book What is Sociology? is recognized as a sociological confession by the German sociologist, Norbert Elias (1897-1890). It is not a typical sociology textbook that begins by introducing the main concepts, but begins instead with the destruction of central notions of sociology such as the individual and society. Elias sees society and its main components family, school, industry, earth, system etc. - as examples of objectification and the dehumanisation of social life, brought on by sociological and regular vocabulary. He also thinks of the notion individual as an unreal abstraction, because a human being cannot exist without their social connections. What is Sociology? reveals that its author is an independent thinker and is not afraid to tackle the fundamental problems of his field. He does this with an in-depth, radical approach. The Estonian publication has a foreword written by Mikko Lagerspetz, a sociology professor at Ã…bo Akademi University.