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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METHOD AND TECHNIQUE OF FORMAL SOCIOLOGY 75 processes in the individual consciousness of the elements. This view will result in an investigation’ which will yield the psychological explanation of the process of socializa- tion. On the other hand, it may also be regarded with ref- erence to what might be called its factual aspect. This view will result in an investigation which will yield the identification of the different forms of socialization and their inherent laws and characteristics. The first asks how the specific socialization comes into existence and how it is continued as the product of individual psychical proc- esses. The latter asks: What are the characteristics of its form, and what is its inherent logical development as inde- pendent of the individual contributions? This latter ques- tion regarding the forms of the socialization will have to be answered in a fashion similar to that in which we answer the question regarding the factualness of the social con- tent in the social sciences. It requires an alternating appli- cation of the general and the historical method. The first, which aims at the determination of timeless uniformities, is purely inductive. It finds its data in all countries, in all ages, and combined with all kinds of social contents. The latter, which is purely historical, investigates the develop- ment of the different forms of socialization. A sociology which aims at a fundamental understand- ing of the processes of socialization must therefore find the psychological explanation and determine the general laws and the historical development of the different forms of socialization. To illustrate the task of sociology with reference to a concrete example, we may formulate some of the funda- mental questions which it would have to answer about competition. Competition is found in countless varieties in the most varied connections—in politics and in economic manage-

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