Ursachen der Amerikanischen Concurrenz

The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 82998979X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-86655

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Ursachen der Amerikanischen Concurrenz

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Bahr

Year of publication:: 1883

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (825 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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i= je 1S 1d 0, ala ut an of 1d n- 28, ne al he "i £- al I- ‘tg AS Af SPATIAL RELATIONS OF SOCIAL FORMS 145 the actual forces. The spatial conditions of an occurrence are often very indicative of the processes which have brought it about. Such is also the case with the processes of socialization. Interaction between human beings is conceived of and experienced as space-filling. If individuals live within cer- tain spatial boundaries and are isolated from one another, the space between them is empty space. But if they enter into reciprocal relations, the space between them seems filled and animated. The term “between” has a double meaning. It is a spatial and a functional concept. The re- sult is that the interaction between two elements, which in the last analysis consists of an immanent movement within each of the elements, comes to be conceived of as taking place between them in the sense of in a spatial location. The functional reciprocity is felt to be located between the two points in space occupied by the elements themselves. It manifests itself in space, and the spatial form becomes therefore characteristic of the reciprocity as a whole. An investigation of the spatial aspect of sociological forms will therefore throw light on the character of the processes of soclalization.! Spatially Exclusive and Non-exclusive Groups The fact that social forms manifest themselves in space makes it necessary to view them first of all in relation to certain fundamental characteristics of space. One of these characteristics is its exclusiveness. Just as space in general is unique and exclusive, so each part of space has a certain uniqueness and exclusiveness. A specific localized part of space cannot be conceived in the plural. It is unique and exclusive. This characteristic of space makes it possible to conceive of a plurality of fully identical objects. The 1 Ibid., pp. 614-17.

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