The relevance of the concept "Zuordnung" brought from the methodologies in early 20th century's natural sciences to social sciences

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K13912
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
• Research Institution: Kobe University (2021); Nihon University (2020); Kyoto University (2019)
• Principal Investigator: Umemura Mugio 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 講師 (70758557)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 帰属＝対応づけ（Zuordnung） / 帰属（attribution） / 帰属＝帰責（Zurechnung） / 20世紀前半の自然科学方法論と社会科学方法論 / オーストリア社会学史 / 社会学史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research in the conclusion confirms that in the early history of Austrian sociology interdisciplinary relationships have been shown between humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, that social psychology has widely contributed to early Austrian sociology, and that immigrant and emigrant sociologists from Austria has spread research methods and insights.
Especially in Austria, in particular in Graz, early sociological studies have been carried not necessarily by sociologists so-called today, but by not a little number of the other discipline's scholars. In the 1920's, Hugo Spitzer, a subsupervisor of Fritz Heider's doctoral thesis, has established a chair of philosophical sociology. It is a remaining question to be further researched whether and how Heider has accepted not only natural scientific and philosophical knowledges but also sociological insights.

Free Research Field

社会学史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

帰属概念の発展を手がかりとして、とりわけオーストリア初期社会学を中心とする、社会学と社会心理学の方法論的発展を跡づけるなかで、自然科学と人文・社会科学とのあいだでの参照関係、学際的な展開が明らかになった。しかしその一方で、例えば自然科学から社会科学へのより単純な移植が、その後の社会科学の各分野の発展を受けて継承されることなく、他ならぬハイダーの帰属概念に見られるように、あくまで各専門分野の対象領域に応じた展開が必要であり、そうした導入にあたっては、むしろ導入先の専門分野や隣接分野で先行する知見を参照して行わなければならないという点は、なお今日に通じている。