Georg Simmel
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Background
Born March 1, 1858 in Berlin
German micro-sociologist and founder of the Formal School of sociology
Lecturer and professor
1908: Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation
Many of these articles were very popular in the United States and in The American Journal of
Sociology
Robert Park and Ernest Burgess (Concentric Zone Model) accredited their classic,
Introduction to the Science of Sociology, to Simmel
Influences
Husserl
Marx
Weber
Darwin
Spencer
Kant/Neo-Kantian
Comte
Key Concepts
Formal Sociology
Social Types
The stranger
The spendthrift
The mediator
The adventurer
The renegade
Key Concepts
Dialectical Thinking
Social Geometry
Dyad
Triad
Superordination and subordination
Key Concepts
Sociability
Tact and impersonality
Sociability thresholds
The “Sociability Drive” and the Democratic of Sociability
The artificial world of sociability
Social games
Coquerty
Conversation
Key Concepts
Secrecy
The Secret Society
Philosophy of Money
Key Concepts
Exchange
Mass Culture
How these concepts help us understand
Society
The forms of interaction patterns.
“Forms of interaction do exist and are subject to systematic analysis”
Guide for microsociology
Social Geometry : Numbers
Dyad and Triad
Bystander effect
Devide Et Impera
The art of war
British on Malaysia prior to 1957
Social Types: The Stranger
Neighborhood
Superordinate and Subordinate
There will always be a leader and follower in social world
Sports
Education
Company
Family
Country
Religion
Secrecy
Secret defines society, based on Ratio of Secrecy
Family: more secret, more intimacy
Company
Presidential Campaign
Philosophy of Money
Once money replaced barter system, the human interaction process is forever
changed
Money define everything’s worth
People quantify things instead of qualify
Haute Couture Macaroon
Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft