SOCIOL 3P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contemporary Sociology, Georg Simmel, Medical Sociology
1 Feb 2018
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Sociology as both a science and politics and art. He said novelist are like sociologist - its not research but literacy can give you a way to see how they experience the world. Wanted to know the purpose of sociology. Both thought there should be a distinct separation between politics and academic work. Created left wing activist magazine - dissent (1954) They were politically active radical public individuals - but less dogmatic than cw. Wanted to write to the public as well - public individual. Cosers strived to be good writers like cw mills. The micro, macro and meso levels of analysis: both (lewis") first book function of social conflict - parson-merton-mills. Simmel - micro greedy inst - pulled into chess club and obsessed , elite law firm takes all your time. Fled nazis regime (germany) to paris and changed name. Unlike merton, he grew up in upper class - in berlin. Very active in radical things (very marxists)
