Georg Simmel

Concurring with Frederick Taylor, in Ian Kershaw’s Why Did German Democracy Fail, Harold James argues that the depression alone did not engender the collapse of Weimar, rather a decade of economic volatility delegitimized the Weimar government in the eyes of the public. However, in contradistinction with Taylor, James callously argues that the bulk of this volatility was not caused by the periods of hyperinflation and massive unemployment, rather it was the ridiculous demands of the labor…

There are various explanations for why humans turn to religion; these include revelation as an origin, the natural knowledge-of-god, anthropological and psychological explanations. These explanations look to where the concept of religion originated. Why do people believe in a higher being and why do individuals act according to the values and practices related to their beliefs? These theories and explanations look to find the reasoning. Revelation as origin is the idea that religion originated…

Looking at society today, we can look back and see the progression of city life that has taken place throughout time, and that has led us to what life is like in today’s day and age. From architecture, technology, and relationships, people and objects contained in these cities have transformed humanity, and the idea of city life as a whole. From the Medieval to the Industrial era, one can see the changes in what is considered to be a city and how these changes can affect people individually.…

Sociologists have been arguing for a long time the possibility of studying society objectively. A society consists of a group of people living together to some extend in an organised way (Pathak, 2007: 86). Together, they make decisions to how things will be done and divide the responsibilities. The question is wether a society could be studied objectively. Objectivity is the state or quality of being unbiased or fair (Megill, 1994: 2). The positivists, including Emilie Durkhiem and Comte…

Artists wearing and rapping about luxury brands are showing of a level of success that they have managed to reach. Sociologist, Georg Simmel, argues that fashion serves as a method of serves to separate class, claiming that: “fashion on the one hand signifies union with those in the same class, the uniformity of a circle characterized by it, and, uno actu, the exclusion of all the other…