Cultural Reader

“Fashion… leads the individual on the road to equality, but... also the need for differentiation.” — Georg Simmel “Taste classifies, and it...

“The individual has become a mere cog... while culture gains an autonomous momentum beyond his control.” — Georg Simmel, “The Conflict in Mo...

“Fashion is the imitation of a given example and satisfies the demand for social adaptation; it leads the individual on the road to equality...

“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in ...

“The stranger is near and far at the same time... he is in the group but not of the group.” — Georg Simmel, “The Stranger” (1908) The One ...

Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was never quite at the center of the sociological canon—but that may be exactly why he remains so vital today. A ph...

There are two central ideas that form Simmel ’s perspective: social forms and the relationship between the subjective experience of the in...

German sociology is rooted in the philosopher G.F.W. Hegel's (1770-1831) idea of the dialectic. Like Comte in France , Hegel offered...

Source: Simmel ’s major work Soziologie published in 1908. 1.        DEF: society exists where a number of individuals enter into inter...

Georg Simmel's famous and influential essay "The Stranger" introduces the sociological category of the stranger and his so...

Georg Simmel 's famous article "The Metropolis and Mental Life" was a groundbreaking work in the field of urban studies and s...

Georg Simmel 's essay "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (1903) was originally a part of a series of lectures carried out by...