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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PREREQUISITES OF SOCIALIZATION 83 ) I A - 3 NN LS D gS n h ‘Q ¢ © 3. 1) eo f re 1. PP Social situations, professions, and classes might be classified and distinguished according to the smaller or larger part of the personality which remains outside of the social relation. There is on the one hand the Catholic priest, whose ecclesiastical function completely covers and absorbs his individual existence, and on the other hand the objective, impersonal function of the producer and dis- tributor in the modern economic system. The knowledge that the social activity is something completely differen- tiated from the rest of the individual has even in this mar- ginal case a positive influence on the attitude which people assume toward him and he toward them. An a priori of em- pirical social life is therefore that life is not entirely social.’ But the individual’s existence is not only in subdivision of its content partially social and partially individual, but also as a whole that existence may be viewed on the one hand as a social existence and on the other as a completely individual existence. The social structure is composed of beings which are at the same time inside and outside of it. Latently or openly, there exists between the individuals and their socializations a relation like that between two parties. This relationship exists, moreover, not only be- tween the individuals and specific forms of socialization, but also between the individuals and society at large. We know ourselves to be members and products of society, and we realize that our life-process is intimately interwoven with that of society. Yet, however completely we may trace its content from social antecedents and reciprocities, it still remains capable of consideration under the category of the individual life. It can still be viewed as experience of the individual and with reference to this experience. These are two categories under which the same content may be viewed. 1 I'bid., pp. 35-37.

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