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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158 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL monk, the artisan, the artist, and the civil servant were all more peripatetic than they are today. Their wanderings brought the different corners of the territory into contact with one another and contributed greatly to the unification. The political centralization could be maintained under such conditions only by an actual movement of the center by means of traveling civil servants. The journeys of the king or of the king’s judges and magistrates were for a long time the only means of overcoming the spatial dispersion of the group elements and of maintaining at least an ap- proximate political unity. An entirely different effect results if the wandering is done by elements whose life-principle is that of mobility while the life-principle of the group is that of territorial fixation. Such harmful effects result from the wandering of tramps and vagabonds who express in their spatial rela- tions their internal restlessness. Their wandering is an ex- pression of their nonconformity to the sedentary principle of the group, and serves forces which are antagonistic and dangerous to a harmonious unity.! Other Spatial Expressions of Sociological Forms The sociological interest in the phenomena so far re- ferred to arises only after the spatial configuration has fully appeared. In another set of phenomena the sociologi- cal importance lies mainly in the processes immediately preceding and in the sociological structure and energies determining the spatial configuration. To this group be- long the organization of groups on a territorial basis, the rule over territory as an expression of the rule over people, and certain sociological configurations which find expres- sion in a strip of intentionally depopulated land. i Soz., pp. 670-81.

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