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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262 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL closely resembles it, owes perhaps more to Comte directly than to the more recent German developments. But the work of Ribot, Poulhan, and others in the field of feeling and sentiment, and other studies in the field of suggestion, undoubtedly influenced the development of the social sciences. With the eighties the psychological point of view had begun to be more or less accepted. In the German group it was expressed by Tonnies and Gumplowicz, and in the French group by de Roberty, de Greef, and Fouillée. In this group the doctrine of Fouillée is an interesting com- bination of biological and psychological concepts similar to that of Schiiffle in Germany. While maintaining that society was an organism, he explicitly stated that it was of a psychological nature, and he combined these two no- tions in the more or less contradictory concept of a con- tractual organism. With the nineties, the psychological point of view had become commonplace, not only in Europe, but also in America. France added Tarde and Durkheim, Germany Simmel, Ratzenhofer. Stein, and Barth to its adherents; and the group of American sociologists, such as Giddings, Small, Vincent, and Stuckenberg, had a definite leaning in that direction. With the acceptance of the psychological point of view and the renunciation of the method of organic analogy, a great step had been taken in the right direction, but the whole road from a philosophy of society to a science of association had not yet been traversed. There was agree- ment regarding the fundamental nature of society, but that was all. There was neither a consensus of opinion re- garding the task of sociology nor regarding its subject-mat- ter. Some of the adherents of the psychological point of

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