To say that money is a claim on society is not original, Dodd reminds us with references to Georg Simmel and others. But he is right to say it again. The traditional view still traces the origins of ...

Hypothetically, introducing friends from different social circles shouldn’t be that hard. Two people you like—and who like you—probably have some things in common. If they like each other, you’ll have ...

Davison-Vecchione, Daniel 2024. The secret and The Circle: Georg Simmel’s social theory and Dave Eggers’ dystopian fiction. The Sociological Review, ...

Final take-home examination. Mustafa Emirbayer, "Manifesto for a Relational Sociology." Georg Simmel, Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms (chs. 3, 6; 9; 10; 18; 20). Georg Simmel, Conflict ...

Anthony Fothergill juxtaposes a story by Joseph Conrad and the writings of Georg Simmel to expose the performative aspects of gifts and to illuminate how narratives themselves may participate in a ...

"Nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd," concluded German sociologist Georg Simmel after a lifetime of research. Following two years of lockdowns and social distancing ...

We need to develop and share techniques so people can self-manage their phone use. An essay from 1903 by Georg Simmel called The Metropolis and Mental Life. In 1903, when Simmel observed that more and ...

Max Scheler and Georg Simmel. In exploring their individual works written during and after the War, the author reveals how philosophical concepts and new forms of thinking were forged in response to ...

Terrier, Jean 2012. Personnalité individuelle et personnalité collective selon Émile Durkheim et Georg Simmel. Sociologie et sociétés, Vol. 44, Issue. 2, p. 235. Kostantaras, Dean 2017. Perfecting the ...

The German philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel believed that a society with separate but overlapping circles allows ...

Shi, Yuanping 2024. How Can Humans Attain a Harmonious Cosmic Order? Max Scheler’s Insights into Religious Experience in the Middle Period. Religions, Vol. 15, Issue. 10, p. 1248.