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Georg Simmel was born in Berlin, Germany, as the youngest of seven children to an assimilated Jewish family. His father, Eduard Simmel (1810–1874), a prosperous businessman and convert to Roman Catholicism, had founded a confectionery store called "Felix & Sarotti" that would later be taken over by a chocolate manufacturer.
German sociologist Georg Simmel wrote [in 1950] an article [5] discussing the stranger in society. He states that the phenomenon of the “stranger” is the unity of liberation and the fixation of space; physical conditions are the condition and the symbol for human relationships.
Georg Simmel: Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung [25.7.1896] In: Georg Simmel: Gesamtausgabe. Band 17, Hg. v. Klaus Christian Köhnke. Frankfurt am Main 2004, S. 33-36. Alexander C. T. Geppert: Weltstadt für einen Sommer: Die Berliner Gewerbeausstellung 1896 im europäischen Kontext. In: Mitteilungen des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins 103.1 ...
Georg Simmel goes into depth on the idea and how he creates the basis of a triad and what led him to his findings. It goes into discussing how places have taken triads shape. For example, in World War One he categorized the war into three various sections—European nationalism, materialism and imperialism. [ 1 ]
The Stranger" is an essay by Georg Simmel, originally written as an excursus to a chapter dealing with the sociology of space in his book Soziologie. [1] In this essay, Simmel introduced the notion of "the stranger" as a unique sociological category. He differentiates the stranger both from the "outsider" who has no specific relation to a group ...
Examples of this conception can be found in some of the works of sociologists such as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim and to some extent Robert Park. Interactive social distance: Focuses on the frequency and intensity of interactions between two groups, claiming that the more the members of two groups interact, the closer they are socially.
Georg Simmel has been seen as the classical sociologist who was most important to this field. [3] Simmel wrote on "the sociology of space" in his 1908 book "Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation". His concerns included the process of metropolitanisation and the separation of leisure spaces in modern economic societies. [4]
Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was one of the first generation of German nonpositivist sociologists. His studies pioneered the concepts of social structure and agency. His most famous works today include The Metropolis and Mental Life and The Philosophy of Money.