SOCB43H3 Chapter Notes -Polytheism, Georg Simmel, Content Analysis
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Chapter 3: the problem of sociology (pages 23-35: society exists where a number of individuals enter into interaction (interaction is key to everything), which arises on the basis of certain drives or for the sake of certain purposes. Unity (or sociation) in the empirical sense constitutes the interaction of elements (i. e. , individuals in the case of society) Individuals are the loci of all historical reality, but the materials of life are not social unless they promote interaction. Basically there is no such thing as society as such the quantity" of society boils down to the degree or kind of interaction or sociation that occurs: simmel conceives sociology as the science of social forms. Simmel acknowledges that serious problems of methodology face sociology a product of the complex nature of the subject matter and the task of formal analysis that he proposes.
