Sociology

Name: Sociology
Author: Georg Simmel

by Georg Simmel

Comprehensive study of society, interaction, and human social forms

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Georg Simmel

Simmel was the most penetrating of early sociologists, analyzing the forms of social interaction — exchange, conflict, secrecy, fashion — with an aphoristic brilliance that influenced Benjamin, Lukács, and the entire tradition of cultural sociology.

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