Conflict / The Web Of Group Affiliations
by Georg Simmel
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The author, Georg Simmel, has been discribed as the Freud of the study of society, describing conflict as part of a dynamic by which some people are drawn together into those uneasy combinations known as groups. The inter-weaving or entangling of social circles is viewed in the same way, as part of the dynamic both of groups and of the individual personalities that compose them.--Publisher.Tags
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Another brilliant German who was destroyed by Nazi thugs.
{Simmel is one of the sturdiest thinkers to have evaluated the evolution of financial vehicles: From exchange through currency to modern Credit. That is, from chickens and pigs (valuable but messy), to gold (valuable but variable), to coinage (standard but heavy), to paper (light but forgable), to "credit" with no Thing representing the chose-in-action. He described the modern "credit system" a century ago.}
{Simmel is one of the sturdiest thinkers to have evaluated the evolution of financial vehicles: From exchange through currency to modern Credit. That is, from chickens and pigs (valuable but messy), to gold (valuable but variable), to coinage (standard but heavy), to paper (light but forgable), to "credit" with no Thing representing the chose-in-action. He described the modern "credit system" a century ago.}
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Georg Simmel, a German sociologist, was a brilliant scholar who wrote about many aspects of human existence but never developed a systematic theory. He lectured at Berlin University for many years but was never given a permanent position because of his Jewish origins, his nonprofessorial brilliance, and what some took to be his destructive show more intellectual attitude. He is remembered in the United States for a number of insightful essays on such topics as the social role of the stranger and the nature of group affiliation. His book on conflict formed the basis of Lewis A. Coser's The Functions of Social Conflict, one of the classics of American sociology. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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