La réforme syndicale en Italie

The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 174739971X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-125215

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Title:: La réforme syndicale en Italie

Place of publication:: Rome

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Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 207 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Rapport de la commission du sénat

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260 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL toward the social aspect of their result. It was based on a point of view which saw sociology as the study of associa- tion, sociation, socialization, reciprocal determination, or whatever other term was used for indicating the unique sociological subject-matter. The actual historical development has not, of course, followed this schematic simplicity. Certain theories can just as easily be classified under one heading as under an- other. But the general trend has been more or less in this direction. Our aim here, moreover, is not the careful trac- ing of exact historical sequences, but the understanding of a period. For that reason we feel justified in using this simplified schema, although we are fully conscious of the distortion of historical reality which results from it. The organic school of sociologists fulfilled two func- tions of considerable importance. It gave the concept of social unity a concrete expression and imbedded it for all time in social thought. Apart from this contribution, it functioned as an antidote to one-sided romanticism. It directed attention toward that which is timeless and uni- versal in social life instead of toward that which is histori- cal and unique, and thereby took the first step in the liber- ation of sociology from the philosophy-of-history tradi- tion. Within the organic school there occurred a gradual change of emphasis from a biological to a psychological viewpoint. Not even Spencer has ever pretended that social processes are of a physical nature, but he was too much interested in structural analysis to pay much atten- tion to the nature of social functions. With Schiiffle the emphasis came to be placed on the functional aspect of social life, and this resulted in a definite change toward a psychological point of view. He suggested that the bond of social unity consists of psychical processes of interaction

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