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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CHAPTER III THE NUMERICAL RELATIONS OF SOCIAL FORMS THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF SOCIALIZATIONS! TTT WILL be conceded without hesitation that a group of a certain size must build organs, establish forms, 4. and maintain regulations which a smaller group does not need. Mere observation shows that small groups, on the other hand, develop forms of interaction which dis- appear when they grow in size. It is possible to undertake an analysis of this quantitative determination and to trace some of the more important correlations between the forms of the socialization and the number of elements that are socialized. This quantitative determination has two aspects, a negative and a positive one. The negative aspect is evident when there exists a numerical limit above or below which a specific form cannot occur. In case this specific form is the result of, or is possible only with, a definite content, then, if there is a correlation between the content and the size of the group, it can be realized only in groups of a certain size. In such a case the content determines the size of the group and thereby the form. The forms of communistic societies, of secret organizations, and of certain religious sects, which are all limited in their membership on account of their doctrines, are illustrations of this negative deter- mination. The positive aspect is evident when a change is directly required by a purely quantitative modification of - Adapted from Soz., chap. ii. pp. 47-138. | PR

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