The Sociology of Georg Simmel

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Cover
......Page 1
Title
......Page 3
Copyright
......Page 4
Acknowledgements
......Page 6
Contents
......Page 7
Introduction
......Page 15
I. Fundamental problems of sociology (individual and society)
......Page 65
1. The field of sociology
......Page 67
2. The social and the individual level (an
example of general sociology)......Page 90
3. Sociability (an
example of pure, or formal, sociology)......Page 104
4. Individual and society in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century views of life (an example of philosophical sociology)
......Page 122
II. Quantitative aspects
of the group......Page 149
1. On the significance of numbers for social life
......Page 151
2. The quantitative determination of group divisions and of certain groups
......Page 169
3. The isolated individual and the dyad
......Page 182
4. The triad
......Page 209
5. The importance of specific numbers for relations among groups
......Page 234
III. Superordination and subordination
......Page 243
1. Introduction
......Page 245
2. Subordination under an individual
......Page 254
3. Subordination under a plurality
......Page 288
4. Subordination under a principle
......Page 314
5. Superordination and subordination and degrees of domination and freedom
......Page 332
IV. The secret and the secret society
......Page 369
1. Knowledge, truth, and falsehood in human relations
......Page 371
2. Types of social relationships by degrees of reciprocal knowledge of their participants
......Page 383
3. Secrecy
......Page 396
4. The secret society
......Page 411
V. Faithfulness and gratitude; negativity of collective behavior; the stranger; metropolis
......Page 445
1. Faithfulness and gratitude
......Page 447
2. The negative character of collective behavior
......Page 464
3. The stranger
......Page 470
4. The metropolis and mental life
......Page 477
Index
......Page 493