Social type (Simmel)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dan Silver (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss320 |
| OpenAlex | W3136853140 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Although Georg Simmel (1858–1918) did not articulate a concept of social type, his descriptions of configurations like the stranger, the adventurer, the metropolitan, the miser, and the spendthrift have stimulated sociologists who use the concept. Among these, it is perhaps Simmel's analysis of the stranger that has spawned the most literature, including Robert Park's type of the Marginal Man, Paul Siu's concept of the Sojourner, Alfred Schütz's concept of the Homecomer, and Lewis Coser's treatment of the Alien (Levine 1985: Ch. 5
Adventure · Alien · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biology · Geography · Humanities · Metropolitan area · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Type (biology · Demography · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |