Publication date 1950 topics social sciences, theories and methods in social sciences, methods of the social sciences publisher. The philosophy of money in the philosophy of money, georg simmel presents a remarkable and wideranging discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy. Georg simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge article pdf available in journal of intercultural studies 336. The sociology of georg simmel iowa state university. In simmelian terms, the stranger is a formal structuring of personality, in which the many contents such as desires, instincts, and so on, gain their recognizable social shapes. Jun 09, 2011 georg simmel s essay the metropolis and mental life 1903 was originally a part of a series of lectures carried out by simmel and his associates discussing different aspects of social urban life at the turn of the 19th century. He provides us with a detailed analysis of the circulation and. Georg simmel has 235 books on goodreads with 6629 ratings. He differentiates the stranger both from the outsider who has no specific relation to a group and from the wanderer who comes today and leaves tomorrow. He taught philosophy at the universities of berlin 18851914 and strassburg 191418, and his insightful essays on personal and social interaction inspired the development of. The study of forms extends to the examination of various types or roles under which humans are labelled and organise their actions such as the stranger, the adventurer, the miser, the prostitute and looks at diverse phenomena of contemporary social life, including fashion simmel 1957, the city simmel 1950b and sexuality oakes 1984. Learn georg simmel with free interactive flashcards. Page 1 of 3 the stranger, simmel the stranger georg simmel if wandering is the liberation from every given point in space, and thus the conceptional opposite to fixation at such a point, the sociological form of the stranger presents the unity, as it were, of these two characteristics.
He provides us with a detailed analysis of the circulation and exchange of commodities, while considering the. Dale mclemore the university of texas at austin the stranger is but one of the many intriguing concepts which contemporary sociologists have received from the fertile mind of georg simmel 1908. Pdf georg simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge. 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. Drawing on kant, marx, and weber among many, many others, the book has simmels singular style that separates him from pretty much every other sociologist that has ever lived.
Throughout the history of economics the stranger everywhere appears as the trader, or the trader as stranger. Simmel was generally a formalist trying to identify key aspects of social life that were based on formal regularities expansion of group size, difference between dyad and a triad. Mar 04, 2017 georg simmel the stranger summary georg simmels famous and influential essay the stranger introduces the sociological category of the stranger and his social function within groups. Georg simmel theory explained george simmel studied cultural and social phenomena by looking at its forms and content within the scope of a transient relationship. Choose from 70 different sets of georg simmel flashcards on quizlet. People always have been concerned about the entrance of a new person. The sociological form of the stranger reveals simmel s 1950 love of the paradox by em. Jun 12, 2017 the study of forms extends to the examination of various types or roles under which humans are labelled and organise their actions such as the stranger, the adventurer, the miser, the prostitute and looks at diverse phenomena of contemporary social life, including fashion simmel 1957, the city simmel 1950b and sexuality oakes 1984. A social type becomes a type because of hisher relations with others who assign a certain position to this person and have certain expectations of. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Georg simmel to heinrich rickert 1904 in the philosophy of money, simmel provides us with a remarkably wideranging discussion of the social, psychological and this one is really my book, the others appear to me colourless and seem as if they could have been written by anyone else. Simmel, did not pretend to usurp the subject matter of economics 1, ethics, psychology, or historiography. Georg simmel chapter nine sociology as the study of form. What is the stranger sociology of the stranger george.
Cosers the functions of social conflict, one of the classics of american sociology. Founding the german sociological association in 1910, he was a pivotal member of the sociological community even though he didnt. Georg simmel was an early german sociologist and structural theorist who focused on urban life and the form of the metropolis. Georg simmel and formal sociology sociology, as conceived by g. The sociology of georg simmel georg simmel, kurt h.
The sociological form of the stranger reveals simmel s love of the paradox by emphasizing a mixture of opposites mclemore 86. This translation from the german, by ramona mosse, is taken from georg simmel, soziologie. The simmelian stranger has been extensively studied and critiqued. Pdf the simmelian stranger has been extensively studied and critiqued. He taught philosophy at the universities of berlin 18851914 and strassburg 191418, and his insightful essays on personal and social. In it, simmel illustrates some aspects of modern urban culture. If wandering is the liberation from every given point in space, and thus the conceptional. The sociological form of the stranger reveals simmels love of the paradox by emphasizing a mixture of opposites mclemore 86. Simmel s understanding of the stranger is perhaps the best example of this aspect of his thought but so is the tragedy of culture, explained below. This allowed him to develop a theory of structuralism within the reasoning of social science. Excursus on the stranger in the context of simmels socio. Oct 12, 2016 alan watts how to see through the game the secret to life happiness duration. This was a curious birthplaceit would correspond to times square in new yorkbut it seems symbolically fitting for a man who throughout his life lived in the intersection of many movements, intensely affected by the crosscurrents of intellectual traffic and by a.
In the theory, simmel observes a special relationship that exists between distance and the nearness that revolves around a person in relation to a stranger. Sociology as the study of form like many of the classical theorists, simmel proposed an agenda for sociology that was designed to carve out a distinct area of inquiry for the new discipline by form, simmel meant the pattern that characterized a specific type of interaction. Georg simmels concept of the stranger and intercultural com mu n. He also believed that a dyad was the least stable category of groups. What is the stranger sociology of the stranger george simmels. Pdf georg simmel, the stranger and the sociology of.
Georg simmel 18581918 was a sociologist and is widely credited to founding the sociological branch of exchange 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. This is the first of two video lectures on georg simmel, discussing his emphasis on social interaction and his concepts of social types and social forms. According to simmel s argument the stranger is dissimilar from the wanderer which comes and goes but is rather just one who always has that potential since.
Georg simmel author of on individuality and social forms. 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. Unpublished manuscript, department of criminology, anthropology, and sociology. Georg simmel the stranger summary georg simmel s famous and influential essay the stranger introduces the sociological category of the stranger and his social function within groups.
Simmel in that famous essay adumbrated a form of sociality. He differentiates the stranger both from the outsider who has no specific relation to a group and from the wanderer who comes today and leaves. In the stranger simmel discusses spatial sociology, and gives his particular take on just one form of categorization that occur. The stranger is connected to the broader social community by only the. This perhaps explains simmels enormous popularity in the age of the internet. The sociology of georg simmel e books sociology and. Georg simmel and the study of modernity springerlink. The stranger, defined by georg simmel as an individual who is a member of a system but who is not strongly attached to the system, influenced 1 such important concepts as social distance, the marginal man, heterophily, and cosmopoliteness, 2 the value on objectivity in social science research, and 3 to a certain extent, the specialty field of intercultural communication. Simmels essays on women have now been assembled in h.
So simmel will describe in the essay some ways that distance and repulsion which we might associate with the opposite of interaction actually produce coordination and interaction. Sociologist georg simmel published his magnum opus, the philosophy of money, in 1900 in germany. In spite of being written at a time in which cities. Georg simmel the stranger summary georg simmels famous and influential essay the stranger introduces the sociological category of the stranger and his social function within groups.
This perhaps explains simmel s enormous popularity in the age of the internet. A social type becomes a type because of hisher relations with others who assign a certain position to this person and have certain expectations of himher. Most recently it appears as a chapter in georg simmel on women, sexuality, and love 1984 the text plato. Books by georg simmel author of on individuality and. Georg simmels most popular book is on individuality and social forms. Mar 17, 2006 the stranger, defined by georg simmel as an individual who is a member of a system but who is not strongly attached to the system, influenced 1 such important concepts as social distance, the marginal man, heterophily, and cosmopoliteness, 2 the value on objectivity in social science research, and 3 to a certain extent, the specialty. For simmel, the stranger is a social role that combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of nearness and remoteness.
The stranger is an essay in sociology by georg simmel, originally written as an excursus to a chapter dealing with sociology of space, in his book soziologie. Excursus on the stranger by georg simmel is a popular classical sociological text, whereas the stranger as a social type is one of the best known concepts of. Simmel believed that in a dyad, a group of two people, interactions were intense and very personal. Simmel constructed a gallery of social types to complement his inventory of social forms. November 19, 2017 simmel social distance, social facts brian spencer. Among the classical sociologists georg simmel is the major figure who can be said not only to have contributed to particular aspects of a new sociology and philosophy of culture, but to have selfconsciously developed an explicit, general theory of culture and modern life. Vince marotta 2012 georg simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge, journal of intercultural studies, 33. Georg simmel was born on march 1, 1858, in the very heart of berlin, the corner of leipzigerstrasse and friedrichstrasse. Georg simmels essay the metropolis and mental life 1903 was originally a part of a series of lectures carried out by simmel and his associates discussing different aspects of social urban life at the turn of the 19 th century. The stranger is an essay in sociology by georg simmel, originally written as an excursus to a.
The stranger georg simmel, translated by ramona mosse. Georg simmel was born in berlin, germany, as the youngest of seven children to an assimilated jewish family. Apr 03, 2016 this is the first of two video lectures on georg simmel, discussing his emphasis on social interaction and his concepts of social types and social forms. Born in berlin, he studied philosophy and history at the university of berlin, using a large sum of money inherited from his deceased father. A stranger according to simmel comes to today and stays tomorrow and unlike an outsider with no specific link with a particular group, a stranger is also different from a wanderer who. Simmel is often seen as one of the most creative early modernlate classical social theorists. Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, georg simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. Theoretical perspectives in sociology, georg simmels.
Georg simmels concept of the stranger and intercultural. Vromen, georg simmel and the cultural dilemma of women, history of european ideas, 8,45, pp. The sociology of georg simmel literary theory and criticism. Page 1 of 3 the stranger, simmel the stranger georg simmel if wandering is the liberation from every given point in space, and thus the conceptional opposite to fixation at such a point, the sociological form of the stranger presents the unity, as it were, of these. Simmels understanding of the stranger is perhaps the best example of this aspect of his thought but so is the tragedy of culture, explained below. Alan watts how to see through the game the secret to life happiness duration. He was known for creating social theories that fostered an approach to the study of society that broke with the thenaccepted scientific methodology used to examine the natural world. Along with the stranger, he describes in great phenomenological detail such diverse types as the mediator, the poor, the adventurer, the man in the middle, and the renegade. This paper suggests that although this body of literature has. According to simmels argument the stranger is dissimilar from the wanderer which comes and goes but is rather just one who always has that potential since.
The stranger is a part of the community, like the poor, or various enemies within, but a part whose position is simultaneously that of an outsider and a counterpart. Georg simmel was one of the first sociologists to look at how the size of a group affects interactions among its members. In the study of society georg simmel made an attempt to understand a whole range of social types such as the stranger, the mediator, the poor and so on. If you read attentively in simmels observations about the modern quality of strangeness, then you may better comprehend the fear of refugees in europe. He differentiates the stranger both from the outsider who has no specific relation to a group and from the wanderer who comes. In this essay, simmel introduced the notion of the stranger as a unique sociological category. In this post, i will be discussing how the concept of social distance applies to georg simmels article the stranger, and to the strangers of our societies. The stranger is an essay in sociology by georg simmel. The stranger is but one of the many concepts which contemporary sociologists have received from the fertile mind of georg simmel. Theoretical perspectives in sociology, georg simmels theory. Georg simmel, born march 1, 1858, berlin, germanydied sept. Georg simmel, a german sociologist, was a brilliant scholar who wrote about many aspects of human existence but never developed a systematic theory.
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