SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Georg Simmel, French Revolution
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Born in 1958 in middle of berlin, his whole life was really cosmopolitan/metropolitan life. Wrote essays on the stranger, people who are involved but not fully involved in the group. He"s always half inside/half outside in what he"s involved in. After he graduated from university, never got a full professor job because was jewish. Basically did lectures and paid depending on number of students who came to lecture. Had people coming to hear his lecture. They also put him into involvement circles, hung out with artists, poets, religious people. Sociology as study of the forms of association. Sociology supposed to study the forms of association. Idea that humans in society are continuous with nature, life is great change and everything is connected. If you can apply laws to nature, you can also apply natural laws to human beings. Technique is to look for regulations and laws. Historicists: you cannot study natural things because human beings exist in space of freedom.
