Georg Simmel

appointment - this maverick economic historian nonetheless exerted a powerful influence on his ivory tower contemporaries. Polanyi was born in Vienna and raised in Budapest, joining, in his student days, the circle of such luminary radicals such as Georg Lukacs and Karl Mannheim. During World War I, he was imprisoned on the Russian front, and upon release, returned to Vienna as a journalist. He immigrated to Britain in 1933, where he lived hand-to-mouth as a tutor. In 1940, during a lecture tour…

One can describe the city in many different ways. Authors Louis Wirth and Georg Simmel suggest that the city, and the basis of our social order in the urban world can be symbolized as the traffic signal, the uniform and the clock. The traffic signal and the clock describe how members of society are constantly working together with individuals who have no sentimental and emotional ties with each other, and how this creates a sense of competition and fighting to expand one’s power or status, and…

global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics. Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology,sociology, statistics, and graph theory. Georg Simmel authored early structural theories…

these sociology thoughts on Community and Society. Simmel had five key ideals he focus on “Social form, Social types, Sociability, Conflict, and The metropolis.” Each key ideal noted will be explain and will be noted if there have been any changes from classical to contemporary theorist. Georg Simmel who was a “German sociologist and philosopher” mainly focus on smaller audience other than Durkheim and Marx theories focus on mass audience. Simmel believed…

Introduction: Many people living in Western societies are completely dumbfounded when it comes to knowing where their clothes are actually from or who made their clothes. People aren't aware of things like the unregulated sweatshops in Bangladesh and other foreign countries. Many people often forget where their clothes are actually coming from when they see a cheap price tag. Third world countries are having their sweatshop workers being exploited all to fulfill the needs for cheap fashion for…

In The Image of the City, Lynch discusses the meaning of “image” and how its interpreted as a cognitive map. He defines it as graphic snapshot of an urban structure. Lynch explains, the premise for reshaping what surrounds us is visual education in the image development process. This is the main condition for which an audience can be made, and in turn, for which an urban system can be manipulated, developed and analyzed. Lynch expands by saying that having the ability to visualize a clear mental…

1. What are commonsense knowledge and myths, and how are they different from sociological knowledge? Common sense knowledge is usually generalizations. Common sense observations are not subjected to the strict forms of testing that is necessary for valid sociological explanations. Myths are stories of people explaining natural or social phenomenon involving supernatural events or beings. Myths are also widely held false beliefs or ideas. Sociological knowledge usually start with a theory that…

Hacktivism is the act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purposes.The phrase “Hacktivism” originated in 1996 by a hacktivist grouped named “Cult of the Dead Cow” (Denning, 2015, para. 5). Over the last few years, computer hacking has transitioned from being a small collective of computer enthusiast, into huge political platform.The first politically motivated hacking attack has been dated as far as 1987 (Dreyfus, 1997, p.2). This platform has…

Question #2: Define in detail the Thomas Theorem, explain how it is relevant to sociology, and explain how it helps explain sociological events in Chicago. W.I Thomas (1863-1947) was an influential sociologist who was at the University of Chicago in the early 20th century. Thomas mainly focused on the importance of the interactive dependence of individuals and social life and culture. He is well known for his term “the definition of the situation”. This term means that before an individual…

Weber: In an era where capitalism was booming in Western society and many sociologists were giving their take on it, some of who did not approve, Weber gave a plausible reason for its existence. Max Weber theorized that capitalism existed and took off because of religious ideas, mainly Protestant, Calvinistic ideas. Protestants believe in predestination; that only God knows who is and isn’t going to Heaven but you only know after you die. Because of this belief, Weber believed protestants…