Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes -Georg Simmel, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Integration
12 Dec 2014
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Marx: modernity was defined by the capitalist economy . Weber: biggest problem of modern world was the expansion of formal rationality at the expense of the other types of rationality and the resulting emergence of the iron cage of rationality . Durkheim: modernity was defined by its organic solidarity and the weakening of the collective conscience . Simmel: the city is where modernity is concentrated or intensified, whereas the money economy involves the diffusion of modernity, its extension : philosophy of money. Modernity brings w/ it a series of advantages to human beings, esp the fact that they are able to express various potentialities that are unexpressed, concealed, and repressed in premodern society . Adverse consequences of money on modernity, esp alienation . Although agency generally refers to micro-level, indv human actors, it also can refer to (macro) collectivities that act .
