The Sociology of Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel

Simon and Schuster, 1950 - Social Science - 445 pages

Contents

• Introduction: xvii
• Simmel in America: xxiv
• The Methodological and Philosophical Importance: xl
• Fundamental Problems of Sociology Indi: 1
• The Social and the Individual Level An Example: 26
• The Simplicity and Radicalism of the Mass: 34
• Sociability An Example of Pure of Formal Sociol: 40
• Individual and Society in Eighteenth and Nineteenth: 58
• On the Significance of Numbers for Social Life: 87
• The Quantitative Determination of Group Divisions: 105
• The Isolated Individual and the Dyad: 118
• The Triad: 145
• The Importance of Specific Numbers for Relations: 170
• Introduction: 181
• Subordination under an Individual: 190
• Subordination under a Plurality: 224
• Subordination under a Principle: 250
• superordination and subordination and degrees: 268
• Knowledge Truth and Falsehood in Human Rela: 307
• Types of Social Relationships by Degrees of Recipro: 317
• Secrecy: 330
• The Secret Society: 345
• Faithfulness and Gratitude Negativity of Col: 377
• The Negative Character of Collective Behavior: 396
• The Stranger: 402
• The Metropolis and Mental Life: 409
• index: 427

About the author

Georg Simmel, a German sociologist, was a brilliant scholar who wrote about many aspects of human existence but never developed a systematic theory. He lectured at Berlin University for many years but was never given a permanent position because of his Jewish origins, his nonprofessorial brilliance, and what some took to be his destructive intellectual attitude. He is remembered in the United States for a number of insightful essays on such topics as the social role of the stranger and the nature of group affiliation. His book on conflict formed the basis of Lewis A. Coser's The Functions of Social Conflict, one of the classics of American sociology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Sociology of Georg Simmel; Volume 92892 of Free Press paperback; Social theory
• Author: Georg Simmel
• Editor: Kurt H. Wolff
• Translated by: Kurt H. Wolff
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1950
• ISBN: 0029289203, 9780029289204
• Length: 445 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / General