Sociology 2151A/B Lecture : October 4.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2151A/B
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

George simmel (1905) wrote a short essay called metropolis and mental life : talked about social psychology (social and psychological aspects of living in cities, in the rural environment, everything was slow, habitual and easy, in the urban environment, everything was fast, and you can"t pay attention to every detail, people in cities must be rational and make choices on what is their best interest, by living in cities, it gives people apathy (meaning that you don"t really care, but you instead make a rational choice of who or what to care about, social reserve is the ability to choose when to help out, alienation is being cut off from other people and sometimes this can be a good thing because you may not want to be around certain people, anomie normlessness; not knowing how to behave because there are no defined rules.