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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- wr eli ud i! CHAPTER VI THE METHOD AND TECHNIQUE OF FORMAL SOCIOLOGY S WAS mentioned in chapter iii, the socio-histori- cal actuality, society as content, may be regarded - from three distinct viewpoints. The social sciences have divided society into different fields on the basis of a differentiation in content, and within these special fields there is therefore also room for three points of view. This may be illustrated by a social situation which is of interest to an economist—that, for instance, in which a number of men who have combined on the basis of a common interest refuse to work any longer for another number of men who have also combined. An analysis of this social situation from the three points of view will yield the following: 1. With reference to the individual bearers, it will yield certain specific motives and emotions bringing the individ- uals into the situation described. 2. With reference to the formal aspect of the reciproc- ities, it will yield two specific forms of association in con- flict and opposition. 8. With reference to its factual aspect, it will yield a labor union on strike in conflict with an employers’ asso- ciation. The importance of these three viewpoints for an epis- temological inquiry has been referred to in chapter iii. What is of importance here is their methodological signifi- cance. The three viewpoints are three modes of approach toward an understanding of the actuality. The fact that each regards merely an abstraction from the actuality im- ei.

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