Christian Karner has previously been a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and then Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln. Most recently, he has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Athens. Christian Karner’s areas of research and publication focus on political sociology (i.e. nationalism, ethnicity, globalization), urban sociology and memory studies. He currently teaches sociological theory at the University of Innsbruck.

• Introduction. Concepts, Crises and Critique in an (Underexplored) Lineage of German-Language Sociology 1. Interactions, Interweavings, Communication: On the Nature of the Social 2. Appropriation, Monopolization, and the Power of Boundaries: From Social Closure to Genocidal Destruction, 3. States, Publics, Communication, and the Intellectual , 4. The Constitution of Meaning and Social Action: Between Ideology, Alienation and Resonance, 5. Theories of a Later Modernity: Structure, Culture, Existentialism, 6. Multiple Exclusions and “Subjugated Knowledges”: Sociologists as PublicIntellectuals, Conclusion. German-Language Sociologies in the Longue Durée and in Global Contexts

Christian Karner has previously been a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and then Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln. Most recently, he has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Athens. Christian Karner’s areas of research and publication focus on political sociology (i.e. nationalism, ethnicity, globalization), urban sociology and memory studies. He currently teaches sociological theory at the University of Innsbruck.

• Introduction. Concepts, Crises and Critique in an (Underexplored) Lineage of German-Language Sociology 1. Interactions, Interweavings, Communication: On the Nature of the Social 2. Appropriation, Monopolization, and the Power of Boundaries: From Social Closure to Genocidal Destruction, 3. States, Publics, Communication, and the Intellectual , 4. The Constitution of Meaning and Social Action: Between Ideology, Alienation and Resonance, 5. Theories of a Later Modernity: Structure, Culture, Existentialism, 6. Multiple Exclusions and “Subjugated Knowledges”: Sociologists as PublicIntellectuals, Conclusion. German-Language Sociologies in the Longue Durée and in Global Contexts

Christian Karner has previously been a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham and then Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln. Most recently, he has held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Vienna and Athens. Christian Karner’s areas of research and publication focus on political sociology (i.e. nationalism, ethnicity, globalization), urban sociology and memory studies. He currently teaches sociological theory at the University of Innsbruck.

• Introduction. Concepts, Crises and Critique in an (Underexplored) Lineage of German-Language Sociology 1. Interactions, Interweavings, Communication: On the Nature of the Social 2. Appropriation, Monopolization, and the Power of Boundaries: From Social Closure to Genocidal Destruction, 3. States, Publics, Communication, and the Intellectual , 4. The Constitution of Meaning and Social Action: Between Ideology, Alienation and Resonance, 5. Theories of a Later Modernity: Structure, Culture, Existentialism, 6. Multiple Exclusions and “Subjugated Knowledges”: Sociologists as PublicIntellectuals, Conclusion. German-Language Sociologies in the Longue Durée and in Global Contexts