Simmel and 'the Social'
Title | Simmel and 'the Social' PDF eBook |
Author | O. Pyyhtinen |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2010-09-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230289843 |
This book argues for the centrality of Georg Simmel's social theory to the relational and processual emphases that are often considered as much more recent developments in social theory. Situating Simmel's work in particular with respect to New Vitalism and Bruno Latour's work, the book shows that Simmel has still an enormous amount to contribute.
On Individuality and Social Forms
Title | On Individuality and Social Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Simmel (Philosophe, Sociologue, Allemagne) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Sociological Theory of Value
Title | A Sociological Theory of Value PDF eBook |
Author | Natàlia Cantó Milà |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2015-07-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3839403731 |
In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities that this approach offers to modern sociology and to a sociology of modernity. She does so by focusing on the theory of value Simmel developed in his »The Philosophy of Money«, delivering an alternative reading of this book that views its theory of value as its main axial point. Simmel's theory of value is depicted by Cantó Milà as including an intrinsically sociological aspect, since economic as well as moral, ethic and aesthetic values are conceived as resulting from human relations.
Personal Networks
Title | Personal Networks PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice Pescosolido |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 769 |
Release | 2021-09-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108839975 |
Combines classic and cutting-edge scholarship on personal social networks. A must-have resource for both newcomers and seasoned experts.
The Social Theory of Georg Simmel
Title | The Social Theory of Georg Simmel PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas John Spykman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Sociology |
ISBN |
Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms
Title | Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Simmel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 2009-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047426681 |
Georg Simmel's highly original take on the newly revived field of sociology succeeded in making the field far more sophisticated than it had been beforehand. He took insights from dialectical thought and Kantian epistemology to develop a "form sociology" method that remains implicit in the field a century later. Forms include such patterns of interaction as inequality, secrecy, membership in multiple groups, organization size, and coalition formation. While today texts and professional societies are organized around "contents" rather than "forms," a fresh reading of Simmel's chapters on forms suggests original avenues of inquiry into each of the contents--family, business, religion, politics, labor relations, leisure.
Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms
Title | Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Simmel |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2011-08-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226924696 |
"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social sciences and humanistic disciplines, he charted a new field for discovery and proceeded to explore a world of novel topics in works that have guided and anticipated the thinking of generations of sociologists. Such distinctive concepts of contemporary sociology as social distance, marginality, urbanism as a way of life, role-playing, social behavior as exchange, conflict as an integrating process, dyadic encounter, circular interaction, reference groups as perspectives, and sociological ambivalence embody ideas which Simmel adumbrated more than six decades ago."—Donald N. Levine Half of the material included in this edition of Simmel's writings represents new translations. This includes Simmel's important, lengthy, and previously untranslated "Group Expansion and Development of Individuality," as well as three selections from his most neglected work, Philosophy of Money; in addition, the introduction to Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie, chapter one of the Lebensanschauung, and three essays are translated for the first time.