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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x. n Pm °h -d or iS e, Nn. m ly he ad vy ze -al b- al Y= re P- ct ch sal oy zh us nt On or SOCIOLOGY bo. at least by treating them as merely accidental. We gain a science of language by abstracting language and its imme- diate psychological conditions from everything that lies beyond, although, as a matter of fact, there would never have been any utterance without concrete motives. In the same manner we shall obtain a sociology by an inquiry into the laws, forms, and developments of social- izations. In reality they determine life only together with other functions and forces, but they can nevertheless con- stitute the subject-matter of a special science only in ab- straction from these factors.! Sociology, then, is the study of the forms of socializa- tion. It is to investigate all forms of socialization: not merely those which have become objectified in social in- stitutions, but also the minor and more ephemeral sociali- zations which do not take objective form in permanent social structures. Society does not consist merely of the objective social structures which have obtained a certain independence of the individual bearers; it also consists of the thousand minor processes of socialization between individuals which contribute to the functional unity of the group. [t seems at first as if economic, political, and military organizations, castes, classes, and families, guilds, par- ishes, and similar great institutions actually constitute the whole of society. If that were the case, a sociological treatment of those institutions would cover the whole field of the science of society. It is obvious that the greater, the more significant a range of social interests and activi- ties is, the more readily will the immediate interindividual life and the direct reciprocities crystallize in objective structures. But besides these prominent phenomena, im- posing through their size and significance, there are innu- 1 “Superordination and Subordination,” 4. J. S., II, 415.

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