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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40 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL the forms in which they occur may nevertheless be similar. On the other hand, the same content can be realized in very different forms of socialization. The economic inter- est may be realized both through competition and through deliberate organization of producers; it may be satisfied through detachment from other economic groups or through combination with those groups. The religious contents of life, while remaining identical in substance, demand now a free, now a centralized community form. The interests which lie at the foundation of the relation between the sexes are satisfied in a greater variety of family formations than can be enumerated. On the one hand, the forms in which the most divergent contents are realized may be identical. On the other hand, the substance may remain while the socialization that carries it may change into a variety of forms. These facts furnish the legitimation of the sociological problem, although in their objective concreteness sub- stance and form constitute an indissoluble unity. That problem 1s the identification, systematic arrangement, psy- chological explanation, and historical development of the pure forms of socialization. The aim is to discover in the countless historical group- ings the principles of group formation as such. The object is to approximate the laws governing the influences which human beings exert upon one another in their reciprocal contacts. These laws are in themselves not affected by the material causes or purposes of these contacts, although the different contents of socialization will lead to various combinations, different degrees of strength, and different tendencies of development. We reach a science of religion by turning our attention away from all other interests of life except religion, or 1 Soz., pp. 7-9.

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