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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SOCIOLOGY AS DISTINCT FROM SOCIAL SCIENCES 47 A Is = 1 ¢ Ba [s IN 4 1e d 8 d I -d e ee basis of a difference in factual content. Economics and church polity, the history of education and of morals, poli- tics and theories of sexual relations, have divided the realm of the social phenomena into separate regions of research. Sociology as a special science, however, rests on an entirely different abstraction from the social phenomena and results from viewing the socio-historical actuality from a quite different standpoint. While economics is distin- guished from politics merely by the difference in content of the social phenomena which it investigates, sociology is distinguished from both by the fact that it treats the form of socialization and not its content. The social sciences find their subject-matter by drawing lines through the his- torical actuality which encircle similar interest contents. Sociology comes into existence by drawing a line which, by intersecting all those already drawn, detaches the pure fact of socialization from its connections with the various contents. It may be that the periphery of this range of problems temporarily or permanently comes into contact with other circles and that boundary lines are vague; but the center remains none the less fixed and determined. Social facts and psychological knowledge may both play a role in the explanation of the form of socialization. This does not prevent the sociological problem from being dis- tinct from both the psychological and the social problem. Sociology is interested in society as form, while the social sciences are interested in society as content. The distinction between sociology and psychology is also based ultimately on a difference in the category of cognition by means of which phenomena are viewed. But the category of cognition for psychology is not the first viewpoint alreadv mentioned. The subject-matter of psy- chology is not the content of consciousness, but the form 1 S0z.. D. 9.

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