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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44 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL of a special science seldom occurs in the purity and isola- tion in which it is scientifically treated. In reality it is al- ways mixed and entangled with phenomena to which other sciences are devoted. Each special science treats an ab- straction, and the case of sociology is not different.! That abstraction is the form of socialization. To describe the different types of social forms and to find the laws accord- ing to which the members of a group and the groups them- selves interact, sociology may draw its material from other sciences. In so far it is an eclectic science. but it is not a synthetic science.? Sociology is a special and a limited science. It is a spe- cial science, not because its object belongs with other ob- jects under a higher general concept, as is the case for clas- sical philology, but because it approaches an entire field of objects from a special point of view. It is differentiated from other social sciences, not by its object, but by the spe- cial viewpoint which guides the abstraction of its subject- matter from the social actuality.® It is neither a social philosophy, a philosophy of history. nor a synthesis of the social sciences. It is a special science with a well-defined field of investigation and a clearly formulated task: the study of the forms of socialization. 1 “Superordination and Subordination,” 4. J. S.. II. 176-77, note 2 Soz. Diff., pp. 2, 4. 3 Soz., p. 10.

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