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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*he ity nup Ze. TrO- her of ing It by aqne- not 1gle rent O1- res. CHAPTER VI SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION THE INTERSECTION OF SociAL CIRCLES! I y YHE history of human associations shows a tendency 1 similar to that of the association of ideas. The soci- ological development seems to repeat the psychologi- cal development. In thought, association by contiguity generally precedes association by analogy. The accidental coexistence of objects in space and time is at first sufficient to bring about an association between the ideas of these objects. The complex of characteristics of these objects appears at first as a unitary totality. Only when one of these characteristics is observed in a great many other combinations does it become differentiated from the rest. The similarity between various objects is then observed detached from the individual combinations, and the asso- ciation based on the relations between the contents of ideas succeeds the association based on their temporal or spatial coexistence. The Historical Aspect of Social Differentiation. The development of human relationships shows an anal- ogous tendency. The individuals are at first associated with others in their immediate environment, and this associa- tion is relatively independent of their individual peculi- arities. At a later stage there arise associations between the homogeneous elements out of the different heterogene- ous groups. ! Adapted from Soz., chap. vi, pp. 403-53. 179

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