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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18 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL of the psychological occurrences, the laws of the psycholog- ical processes. Psychology and sociology are both sci- ences dealing with psychical phenomena, but the one deals with the form of the psychological process, the other with the form of the sociological process. The first deals with the process by means of which a psychological content arises, the second deals with the process by means of which this content creates a form of interaction. Psychology is interested in processes within individuals, sociology is in- terested in interactions and relations between individuals. It would seem at first that the investigation of recipro- cal relations between individuals, and especially of those which have not yet taken superindividual form, lies in the field of psychology, or at least in the field of social psy- chology. All social occurrences have their seat in the in- dividual souls, and socialization is a psychological phe- nomenon. A causal understanding of any social occur- rence would therefore be obtained if it could be deduced trom psychological data according to psychological laws. That part of the socio-historical occurrence which is within our means of comprehension is a psychical concat- enation which we reconstruct by means of either intuitive or methodical psychology. Only by these means can we bring it to subjective plausibility, can we obtain a feeling of the psychical necessity of the occurrence. The occur- rence would not be more intelligible than the merging of clouds or the entangling of the branches of trees if we did not recognize psychic motivations, feelings, thoughts, and needs, not merely as the bearers of these externalities. but as their essence. To that extent every history, every de- picting of a social condition. is an application of psycholog- ical knowledge. But it is of great methodological importance and im- mediately significant for the epistemological principle on ny L tL 1if 9, di °C 0 ng je he TY fe tu th ‘to me of ce: on ter bu an £1 ter xy

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