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There is no single legitimate abstract sociology but several coexisting kinds.

There is no single legitimate abstract sociology but several coexisting kinds.

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tags	ja-picks, definitional_content, trade, singleton, category/definitional-content
aliases	@simmel_sociology_1950, loc. 1547

Sep 20, 20261 min read

There is no single legitimate abstract sociology but several coexisting kinds.

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The purpose of this discussion is to show that there exists not only social life as a basis for the life of mankind and as a formula of it. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1547

There is no single legitimate abstract sociology but several coexisting kinds.
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Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience
Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract
Society names both actual human networks and the abstract forms of sociality
Sociology studies abstract forms of interaction as geometry studies spatial forms
Georg Simmel — The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel — The Sociology of Georg Simmel