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Georg Simmel (/ ˈ z ɪ m əl /; German:; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. Simmel was influential in the field of sociology.
Georg Simmel (born March 1, 1858, Berlin, Germany—died Sept. 26, 1918, Strassburg) was a German sociologist and Neo-Kantian philosopher whose fame rests chiefly on works concerning sociological methodology.
Nov 5, 2019 · Georg Simmel was an early German sociologist and structural theorist who focused on urban life and the form of the metropolis. He was known for creating social theories that fostered an approach to the study of society that broke with the then-accepted scientific methodology used to examine the natural world.
Sep 28, 2016 · Introduction. Georg Simmel (b. 1858–d. 1918) was a German sociologist, cultural theorist, and modernist philosopher. Simmel’s vast oeuvre, containing approximately twenty books and two hundred smaller pieces, includes fundamental contributions to sociology and several scholarly works on philosophers, among them Kant, Bergson ...
Jun 12, 2017 · A German philosopher and sociologist, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is frequently cited as one of the founders of sociology. His work is at times impressionistic, covering a wide range of issues and ideas. His most consistent and rigorous development of a sociology is known as formal sociology.
Jun 11, 2018 · Georg Simmel (1858-1918), German philosopher and sociologist, is still a controversial figure. While some hail him as the founder of modern sociology, others see in him only a brilliant stylist who made no original contribution and failed to develop a systematic theory.
Dec 3, 2020 · Simmel’s focus on individuality in ambivalent interaction within the context of the metropolis constitutes a central feature of his contribution to sociology. He was not inclined to issue laments about the presumed end of the individual due to modern forms of domination; rather his work focuses on the possibilities for individual ...
Dec 20, 2019 · In chapters on Simmel’s “Theory of Modernity,” “Sociological Epistemology,” “Sociology of Culture,” “Sociological Anthropology,” and “Social Ethics,” he argues that Simmel’s writings contain all these elements arranged in a coherent whole.
Jun 14, 2017 · In devoting serious analytic attention to the details of everyday life, Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was sociology’s original microscopist. The German philosopher became the first great figure in sociology’s classical tradition to set out a distinctively interactionist conception of society.
May 25, 2020 · Sociologist Georg Simmel diagnosed the character of modern city life: finance, fashion and becoming strangers to one another
