SOC203H1 Lecture Notes - Persian Letters, Stamen, Georg Simmel
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In each of these cases durkheim is stating that when social occasion has a influence on ones social behavior. It explains peoples behavior in their social context. Simmel says that depending on one who is in old social networks or if one lives in conditions that are in loose social network there are many implications for the persons self. The simmel offers a explanation in web of affiliations which comes in 1908 and his paper metropolis comes in 1903. We think of thinkers idea of time to become more complex in time but this is the opposite and we are finding that simmel is drawing on psychology and history to take on the modernity. He says that human beings are always differentiating creatures and if you take these human beings and plunge them in the city they are bombarded with different stimulus that is rapid than they have consequences for personality.
