Society as a Dynamic Outcome
SIMMEL, Georg.
Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.
Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1908.
4to, pp. viii, 782, [2 blank]; a very good copy in publisher’s half green wave-grain buckram and cloth, rubbed, spine chipped, loose at top and lower joint cracked.
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Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung.
First edition. Simmel ‘had laid the foundations for the discipline of sociology long before Max Weber [who has essentially eclipsed him in the history of the discipline] turned to the problem of sociology as a special subject … The aim of sociology was to describe the forms of social interaction or sociation and the rules of sociation between individuals and groups. Sociation involved the complex web of interactions, both co-operative and conflictual, between socialised individuals. In this respect “society” was not a collective entity nor merely the sum of individuals, but the effect of the ongoing process of sociation between social individuals’ (Bryan Turner in Thinkers of the twentieth Century).
Largely a republication of articles published in the fifteen years preceding its issue, Soziologie nonetheless provided the text by which most Anglo-American scholars first came to know Simmel, since various extracts were translated into English.
