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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LL a Lh Lh ~ 4 CHAPTER VII THE PREREQUISITES OF SOCIALIZATION S WAS mentioned in chapter iii, sociology as an exact A science is flanked on one side by a field of philosophic — inquiry in which the basic assumptions and funda- mental concepts of the science have to be investigated. The study of the actual forms of socialization has to be preceded by a determination of the ideal logical presuppo- sitions of socialization on the basis of a logical analysis of the elements of experience. This investigation must answer the question as to how society is possible in the same way as Kant answered the question as to how nature is possible. But the two questions have a very different methodological significance. Nature is a subjective synthesis, existing only in the mind of the observer and resulting from categories of thought and perception with which the subject shapes the disconnected elements of immediate experience into a unity. Society, however, is an objective unity, resulting immediately from the functional psychical occurrences within the composing elements and realized independent- ly and outside of any observer. The society may of course be observed, but this process in the consciousness of a sub- ject neither conditions nor contributes to the socialization. Socialization, the growing into a unity, is immediately the result of the mental activities of the entities involved. Each of the elements performs the function which, with regard to external nature, is performed by the mind of the observer. Society is a psychical process, and the conscious- oe

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