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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WS gv n Is 1 e 1. VY d rE ry CHAPTER IV SOCIOLOGY AS DISTINCT FROM SOCIAL PHILOSOPYY I iy HE term “sociology” has often been used for in- I quiries regarding the socio-historical actuality which are in the last analysis of a philosophical nature. It becomes necessary, therefore, to distinguish between the science of sociology on the one hand and social philosophy on the other. The word “sociology” does not stand for a special science but simply for a branch of philosophy as long as it is merely used for this latter discipline, and its legitimation as a science demands, therefore, a clear differ- entiation. Social philosophy is in essence the same as and belongs to philosophy. It is the product of the application of the specific philosophic thought form to the subject-matter of society. It results from a specific functional relationship between the subject and the socio-historical actuality which differs from that functional relationship which pro- duces scientific knowledge. It is the outcome of a way of dealing with the phenomenological world which is different from the way in which science deals with that same world. It results from the application of the philosophic method, and for that reason it should be classed with philosophy rather than with the social sciences or sociology. The lat- ter forms of inquiry, although dealing with the same sub- ject-matter, employ a wholly different method. The dis- tinction between science and philosophy is therefore also the criterion for distinguishing between the social sciences

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