The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 1024612627

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-166627

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Spykman, Nicholas J. http://d-nb.info/gnd/124229867

Title:: The social Theory of Georg Simmel

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: XXIX, 297 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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1dy Jang me- be , or unt ak, CHAPTER II SOCIOLOGY THE STUDY OF THE FORMS OF SOCIALIZATION N THE nineteenth century men came to realize that i all human activity ran its course within society and that nothing could withdraw itself from its influence. It was consequently deduced that everything which was not science of external nature must be science of society. Since the subject-matter of ethics and of the history of civilization, of aesthetics and demography, of politics and ethnology, was to be found within the framework of soci- ety, society appeared as the inclusive territory in which all these sciences congregated. In other words, the study of man became the study of society. This realization that man in his whole nature and in all its expressions is determined by the fact that he lives in reciprocal relations with other men, led to a new way of thinking in the field of the humanities. Historical facts in the broadest sense of the word, the contents of culture, the systems of production, the norms of morality, could no longer be explained solely in terms of the individual and his interests. But there was also no longer any neces- sity for having recourse to metaphysical or magical origins where this explanation failed. Historical phenomena could now be explained by the interactions and co-operations of individuals, by the aggregation and sublimation of count- less separate contributions, and by the materialization of social energies in structures which exist and develop out- side of the individuals.

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