SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Georg Simmel, Alexis De Tocqueville, Social Distance
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* in city, there is more nerve stimulating. Sharp discontinuity, and lot of changing caught people"s attention. * the city have sharp difference than rural and countryside. * man is a discriminating creature, (we pick on difference). * people are paying attention to differences; and, the sense will be more bombarded in the city. Contrasting life in city and country side: in city our nerves are more stimulating, we notice there is a difference, but not similarity. We don"t pay attention to things that are conformed. Given the way we are put together, our senses are more bombarded in cities than in countryside. The metropolis and mental life (1903: source of identity in the web of group affiliations (networks) * simmel looks at traditional society (village) and modern society (city) * in the traditional society: dense relationships: everybody in the community knows each other.
