Second Thoughts on Emergent Interaction Orders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2517536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephan Fuch (0000-0002-1766-196X, corresponding author), Stephan Fuchs (0000-0002-1338-2699) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/202068 |
| OpenAlex | W2317028361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
I was very pleased with Donald Levine's (1989) effort to rediscover the lost classic Georg Simmel for social theory. Despite his continuing influence on functionalist conflict sociology, small group research, or exchange theory, contemporary social theorists regard Simmel as a semi-classic only (Fuchs 1988c). And Levine is certainly right in pointing out that part of the reason for Simmel's marginal intellectual legacy is that his oeuvre escaped the narrow interpretive space opened by Parsons' famous, yet misleading, convergence-hypothesis. In regard to an earlier exchange between Anne Rawls and myself on emergent interaction orders (Rawls 1987; Fuchs 1988a; Rawls 1988), Levine correctly reminds us that it was Simmel who first introduced the notion of an irreducible
Epistemology · Sociology · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2012 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |