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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(Y= NS in ds M- mn To le 1 (P- hh ne ~h 1d n- ‘1- te 1S. te In ar IS= aod ‘an rS, le ir- ve ‘er 28S ad al SOCIOLOGY 1.9 Sociology, then, will have to investigate the whole range of socializations from the most simple to the most complex, from the most fleeting to the most permanent. It will have to deal with all the relationships and inter- actions which constitute human association: with imita- tion, representation, the creation of parties, the forma- tion of classes and secondary subdivisions, and the incor- poration of social reciprocities in special structures. It will have to investigate specialized problems, such as the social relations of the non-partisan and the poor, the effects of numerical limitation on the form of the group, and the sociological significance of the primus inter pares and the tertius gaudens. It will have to examine the more complex phenomena, such as the intersection of social circles, and study the more intricate modifications of social forms due to local concentration or spatial dispersion of elements. The task of sociology is to investigate the pure forms of socialization in abstraction from their material content, to give their psychological explanation, and to trace their historical development. Sociology is to determine what is really socialization in society, just as geometry determines what is really spatial extension in material objects. Both geometry and sociology resign to other sciences the inves- tigation of the contents which manifest themselves in their respective forms and the examination of the totality of phe- nomena whose mere formal aspect they observe.! The historical development of the forms of socializa- tion does not, of course, occur in actuality in that clear- cut form nor in strict accordance with the sociological scheme of explanation, but always in devious courses and obscured by all sorts of collateral phenomena. The soci- ological type is always an abstraction, even if not different from that at the basis of every other science. The object 1 Soz., pp. 12-14.

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