Formal sociology, social forms and contents, the tragedy of culture, web of group affiliation
Georg Simmel (/ˈzɪməl/; German:[ˈzɪməl]; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
Simmel was influential in the field of sociology. Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking "what is society?"—directly alluding to Kant's "what is nature?"—presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation. Simmel discussed social and cultural phenomena in terms of "forms" and "contents" with a transient relationship, wherein form becomes content, and vice versa dependent on context. In this sense, Simmel was a forerunner to structuralist styles of reasoning in the social sciences.
With his work on the metropolis, Simmel would also be a precursor of urban sociology, symbolic interactionism, and social network analysis. An acquaintance of Max Weber, Simmel wrote on the topic of personal character in a manner reminiscent of the sociological ideal type. He broadly rejected academic standards, however, philosophically covering topics such as emotion and romantic love. Both Simmel and Weber's nonpositivist theory would inform the eclectic critical theory of the Frankfurt School.
GeorgSimmel (/ˈzɪməl/; German: [ˈzɪməl]; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential...
German sociologist and social philosopher GeorgSimmel. Considered to be the theorist's greatest work, Simmel's book views money as a structuring agent...
das Geistesleben") is a 1903 essay by the German sociologist, GeorgSimmel. One of Simmel's most widely read works, "The Metropolis and Mental Life" was...
reality of his own person, for the wealth of being would thus be lessened. GeorgSimmel also felt that any apparent similarities were superficial: Here we grasp...
consequence of the actions and activities of interacting individuals. GeorgSimmel (1858–1918) was one of the first generation of German nonpositivist sociologists...
OL 2195869M. Levine, Donald (ed) 'Simmel: On individuality and social forms' University of Chicago Press, 1971. pxix. Simmel, Georg (1971). Levine, Donald N.;...
Smith, John Stuart Mills, Thomas Robert Malthus, Karl Marx, and GeorgSimmel. GeorgSimmel was one of the earliest sociologists to formally use "conflict"...
connection to GeorgSimmel, particularly in terms of their influence on the Frankfurt School, but Marianne Weber too was a colleague of Simmel. In addition...
sociological aspects of secrecy were first studied by GeorgSimmel in the early-1900s. Simmel describes secrecy as the ability or habit of keeping secrets...
used by a member of a society, as it is manifested in the society. For GeorgSimmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency...
German biophysicist GeorgSimmel (1858–1918), German sociologist Johannes Mario Simmel (1924–2009), Austrian writer Marianne Simmel (1923–2010), American...
and philosopher GeorgSimmel, she was born into an assimilated Jewish family in Jena, Thuringia, Germany, to doctors Hans Eugen Simmel, a professor, and...
emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory. GeorgSimmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics...
political theory, a process towards individualism (so in Hans T. Blokland, GeorgSimmel, Ferdinand Tönnies) in recent sociology (Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim...
total number of social interactions per unit time. Interactions, or what GeorgSimmel in his pioneering work called Wechselwirkungen, are the basis for society...
W. E. B. Du Bois, Arthur Schopenhauer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, GeorgSimmel, Karl Liebknecht, Ernst Cassirer, Heinrich...
inconvenience of existence". While at the university, he was influenced by GeorgSimmel, Ludwig Klages and Martin Heidegger, but also by the Russian philosopher...
scientific approach to sociology developed by GeorgSimmel and Leopold von Wiese. In his studies, Simmel was more focused on forms of social interactions...
George Herbert Mead, Jacob L. Moreno, Talcott Parsons, Ralph Linton, and GeorgSimmel. Two of Mead's concepts—the mind and the self—are the precursors to role...
such as Karl Marx, Ferdinand Tönnies, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and GeorgSimmel who studied and theorized the economic, social and cultural processes...
Press. ISBN 978-1-250-08068-4. OCLC 921994909. Simmel, Georg (1971). Levine, Donald N (ed.). GeorgSimmel on individuality and social forms: selected writings...
modernization. German sociologists GeorgSimmel and Ferdinand Tönnies wrote critical works on individualization and urbanization. Simmel's The Philosophy of Money...
One rebuttal of Nietzsche's theory, put forward by his contemporary GeorgSimmel, is summarised by Walter Kaufmann as follows: "Even if there were exceedingly...
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