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In this paper the authors try to present and analyze the views of a German thinker, Oswald Spengler on social conflicts. The first part of the text deals with Spengler's method, which points out the need of different approach to nature on the one side, and history (society, culture) on the other. The second part presents the elements of Spengler's view on conflict, using four topics: struggle (conflict) and war, the Western culture and conflict, inner conflicts and possibilities of world peace. In the end of the paper the importance of Spengler's ideas for sociology is stressed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the paper, the results of survey done at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad during the school year 2008/2009 are presented. The aim of this paper is to point out both positive and negative sides of the reform, from the point of view of students sociology. A questionnaire has been used in order to obtain relevant data from the students of sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the author seeks to distinguish the influence that Karl Manheim and Max Scheler had on the development of the sociology of knowledge. As undoubtedly dominant, Manheim's influence left more prominent mark on the identity of the sociology of knowledge. However, Scheler's contribution to the framing of the sociology of knowledge was not negligible. At the moment when the birth of the sociology of knowledge was exposed to various forms of criticism, from classical philosophical epistemology to sociology and sociologists themselves, Scheler did offer, within the framework of traditional phenomenology, a different way of development of the young sociological discipline. Less as an articulated and consistent theory and more as an alternative collection of views on links between the society, ideas, and knowledge, Scheler's sociology of knowledge today may serve as a corrective in attempts to restore the sociology of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the author briefly reviews the sociological research of social inequalities; more precisely, he deals with the research of class/strata structure of society. It is not disputable neither that this research is part of the sociological mainstream, nor that is the area with numerous disputes. It is also worth noticing that the notion of class itself experienced serious challenges. All of this influenced the Yugoslav and Serbian sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]