discuss some of the central ideas of simmel in socioloey
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Georg Simmel rejected the organicist theories of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer and German historical tradition. He did not believe that society can be viewed as a thing or organism as Auguste Comte or Spencer did. For him society is an intricate web of multiple relations between individuals who are in constant interaction with one another society is merely the name for a number of individuals connected by interactions.
Simmel introduced the term sociation that he believed to be the major field of study for the students of society. Sociation implies the particular patterns and forms in which human beings relate to each other and interact. According to him society is nothing more than all the individuals who constitute it. He has also drawn attention to the fact that people in groups of different sizes interact differently from each other. A qualitative change in terms of organization takes place with the increase in number of persons in a group.
There cannot be a totalistic social science which studies all aspects of social phenomenon for even in natural sciences there is no one total science of all matter. Therefore he states that science must study dimensions or aspects of phenomena instead of global wholes or totalities. He believes that the task of sociology is to describe and analyses particular forms of human interaction and their crystallization in-group characteristics such as the state, the clan, the family etc. He says that all human behavior is behavior of individuals but a large part of this human behavior can be understood if we understand the social group to which the individuals belong and the kind of constraints they face in particular forms of interaction. He emphasized the study of forms of interaction and this approach gave impetus to rise of formal sociology.
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.........
Simmel introduced the term sociation that he believed to be the major field of study for the students of society. Sociation implies the particular patterns and forms in which human beings relate to each other and interact. According to him society is nothing more than all the individuals who constitute it. He has also drawn attention to the fact that people in groups of different sizes interact differently from each other. A qualitative change in terms of organization takes place with the increase in number of persons in a group.
There cannot be a totalistic social science which studies all aspects of social phenomenon for even in natural sciences there is no one total science of all matter. Therefore he states that science must study dimensions or aspects of phenomena instead of global wholes or totalities. He believes that the task of sociology is to describe and analyses particular forms of human interaction and their crystallization in-group characteristics such as the state, the clan, the family etc. He says that all human behavior is behavior of individuals but a large part of this human behavior can be understood if we understand the social group to which the individuals belong and the kind of constraints they face in particular forms of interaction. He emphasized the study of forms of interaction and this approach gave impetus to rise of formal sociology.
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.........
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