The social Theory of Georg Simmel

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION 191 for interests which are common to women of all classes and which concern themselves with such facts as legal status, the administration of property, and the guardianship over children. A large superordinated social circle has been formed intersecting the family circles and uniting in a com- mon group what has been differentiated as homogeneous out of these heterogeneous smaller groups.! Another form of social differentiation, or at least an- other aspect of social differentiation, is manifest in the splitting up of co-ordinated circles. It leads to the forma- tion of a number of different circles out of what formerly has been one group. In the Middle Ages such a separation was unknown. The guild did not only regulate the trade activities of its members; it regulated their whole lives. The apprentice was not only a vocational student of his master; he was one of his family. The different aspects of life were intimately integrated, and if the emotional and political life centered around the vocational life, regulation of the latter implied and included regulation of the former. In modern times the different sides of the individual’s life have become more clearly differentiated, and he ex- presses each of these sides in separate associations and re- lationships. This differentiation has been due to a large extent to the division of labor. The division of labor has led to a type of activity which becomes on the one hand increasingly mechanical, but which on the other hand ab- sorbs much less of the total personality and allows other interests to assert themselves more freely. Besides, the increasing professional differentiation must show that sim- ilar life-interests can be combined with different profes- sions. The multiplicity of such other interests which is characteristic of an advanced civilization leads also to similar results. The similarity of interests among those in L Soz., pp. 436-45.

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: The social Theory of Georg Simmel

Monograph

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation