SOCIOL 3A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Georg Simmel, Clifton Public Schools, For Marx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 3A03
• Professor: Benjamin Kelly

Document Summary

Unable to develop sociological system no simmel school. Four levels of social reality: psychological assumptions, interpersonal relationships (focused on, structure and changes of the spirit of the time, metaphysics. Higher levels emerge out of lower levels. Whole-ism: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts (ie h2o) Methodological relationist everything interacts in some way with everything else (dialectical) Any social phenomenon are composed of 2 phenomenon which are insperable: content: Messy, everyone has different interests the interest/motive of the phenomenon/interaction: form: the mode of interaction among individuals through the shape of which the content achieves social reality. Patterns that interaction can take, social structure. H2o = form h,h,o = content ->when they interact, bunch of forms occur (steam) Content: colonization or russian take-over (issues of power) Mere spatial or temporal aggregation of parts is not sufficient society requires reciprocal relationships.