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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36 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL But this did not create a new science. Neither did it mean that the existing social sciences had to renounce their independence and become subdivisions of one inclu- sive, synthetic social science which was to be called sociol- ogy. In so far as sociology, as a science, rested its claims on the ground that man must be understood as a social being and that society is the vehicle of all social experi- ence, it contained no object which was not already treated in one of the existing social sciences. The actual situation was that sociology merely proposed a new way of dealing with the subject-matter of all these sciences, a method of science which, for the very reason that it was applicable to the totality of their problems, was not a special science in and for itself. In the same way induction, when it in- vaded all possible sciences as a method, was not for that reason a special science, let alone an all-comprehensive science. One may call this method of investigating the socio- historical actuality the sociological method; but that does not supply the justification and legitimation of a sociology which shall be a special and independent science. For that purpose it is necessary to define the particular subject- matter which it shall investigate.! The term “sociology” has also been used in connection with certain problems regarding society and the social sci- ences which are in the last analysis problems of a philo- sophical nature. Such are the problems regarding the pre- suppositions of the social sciences which belong to the feld of social methodology. Others are problems regarding interpretations of historical developments, and fall under the philosophy of history. Others, again, are problems re- garding the relative value of individual and collective ac- complishments, and belong to the field of social philosophy. t Soz., pp. 2-4; Grundfr. der Soz., pp. 18-20.

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