Georg Simmel Terms

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association:

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The relationship among people, or interaction

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forms:

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Patterns imposed on the bewildering array of events, actions and interactions in the social world both by people in theri everyday lives and by social theorists

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types:

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Patterns imposed on a wide range of actors by both laypeople and social scientists in order to combine a number of them into a limited number of categories

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Serecy:

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as defined by simmel, the condition in which one person has the intention of hiding something while the other is seeking to reveal that which is being hidden.

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Lie:

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A form of interaction in which a person intentianally hides the truth from others

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Reify:

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To endow social structures, which are created by people, with a sperate real exsistence

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Dyad:

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A two person group

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Triad:

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a three-person group

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Stranger:

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one of simmels social types defined by distance: one who is neither too close nor too far

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Objective culture:

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The objects that people produce - art, science, philosophy and so on, that become a part of culture

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Individual Culture:

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The capacity of individual to produce, absorb, and control the elements of objective culture

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tragedy of culture:

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Stems from the fact that over time objective culture grows expotentially, while individual culture and the abliity to produce it grow only marginally. Our meager individual capacites cannot keep mpace with our cultural products. As a resulty, we are doomed to increasingly less understanding of the world we hcreated to be increasingly controolled by the world