1968 AND SOCIOLOGY

1968 is often seen as a caesura in the history of sociology's success after World War II. With regard to the case of Germany, the article deals with the discovery of society through the students' movement and with the consequences of that for the rise of sociology to the key position of society's self interpretation. Looking back on the successful vanishing of the sociological world model in everyday knowledge, it turns out that today sociology is confronted with an enlightened consciousness of the difference between the ''social construction of reality'' and the individual ''being to death''.