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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NUMERICAL RELATIONS OF SOCIAL FORMS 135 geous position for his own selfish interests. In that case his position becomes that of the fertius gaudens. In the first case he serves as a means to the ends of the group, in the latter case he makes the relationship between the others and himself serve as a means to his own ends. In such cases the triadic relationship is often especially created by the non-partisan for his own advantages and not yet existent in nonsolidated structures. In the last configuration, indicated by the motto Di- mde et tmpera, the third element plays an even more active role. While in the second configuration there usually is an existing antithesis between the two elements which the third element merely uses to its own advantage, in this third configuration the third element actually creates that antithesis. There are, of course, transition forms which are difficult to classify under one or the other. But the essen- tial fact is that two elements originally united against a third, or at least mutually dependent in their relations to a third, are placed in mutual antithesis and opposition by this third element. The result is that they will mutually counterbalance each other and leave the third element free to pursue its own interests, or mutually weaken each other enough to give the third element a predominance which no other single element can dispute. These three configurations are variations of the form of triadic groups. They are purely formal configurations. They can be found in social situations having the most varying content, and occur not only as relationships be- tween persons, but also as relationships between groups. They are manifest in military alliances, in political com- binations, and in economic associations. They appear in the relationship of the monarch to other monarchs as well as in the relationship of the monarch to his subiects.! t Soz., pp. 99-126.

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