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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SUMMARY r HE preceding chapters illustrate the skeleton struc- ture of Simmel’s sociology. Apart from the topics selected, his works contain a great many other essays on specific social forms and general sociological problems. The phenomena dealt with are, however, sufficiently repre- sentative to suggest a more or less unified picture of the task of formal sociology. [t will be evident that, although drawing its data from the social life of all ages, its subject-matter is not the fac- tual content of the social situation, but its purely formal aspect. Its aim is to find correlations between determina- tive factors and sociological forms. Its purpose is not to find correlations between determinative factors and social conditions. Sociology is concerned with kingship and the state as forms of social organization, not as political institutions. It deals with the competitive system and large-scale pro- duction as types of social structures, not as phases of eco- nomic development. It is interested in law and morality in their formalistic aspect, as norms for specific relation- ships, not in their legal or ethical content. The subject-matter of sociology is therefore not the so- cial actuality as such. It rests upon an abstraction from the actuality like that of any other science. In sociology this abstraction results from a differentiation between the form and the content of the social actuality. This mental process of differentiation is its essential technique. As long as this technique is not mastered, the correlation prob- lems of the science will appear in the form of contingency 212

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