Simmel, Durkheim, and Ratzenhofer

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ID2196478
AuthorsArthur F Bentley (corresponding author)
Year1926
Volume32
Issue2
Pages250-256
Publication date1926-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/214092
OpenAlexW2058754347
LanguageEN
Citations received7

Simmel, Durkheim, and Ratzenhofer show a common concentration of purpose upon a coherent statement of social facts without intrusion of other elements: their philosophical or psychological foundations may be stripped away without hurt to their work. Ratzenhofer's groups, with their interests, represent the activities and energies of society. Durkheim's exteriority and constraint represent the same thing, if taken without an assumed opposition to a posited individual. Simmel's forms give us an actual analysis of the social process more delicate and subtle than ever elsewhere attempted, and need only the transfer of the form from a Euclidean to an Einsteinian analogy to assume all the energy and activity features of the other two investigators. The practical trend in this direction is seen in culture studies

Analogy · Constraint (computer-aided design) · Epistemology · Intrusion · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statement (logic) · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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