SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Georg Simmel, Road Rage, Ideal Type
1 Sep 2015
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He was born in berlin and studied history and philosophy at the university of berlin: the stranger (1908, the metropolis and mental life (1903, the philosophy of money (1907, sociology (1908) The deepest problems of modern life flow from the attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his existence against the sovereign powers of society. Against the weight of historical heritage and the external culture and technique of life. The resistance of the individual to being levelled swallowed up in the social, technological mechanism, and becoming a cog in the machine losing their individuality and autonomy. Simmel locates the metropolis, the city, as the site where this struggle is most intensely played out. It"s the most intense concentration of the market place. Echoing durkheim, he connects the enormous division of labour and increased dependency on others with the growth of individualism.
