SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Georg Simmel, Nomothetic, Individualism
Document Summary
He became a lecturer, and his students became famous 20th century academics. He seemed to not be interested in politics that much. Nomothetic science tells the way things are. Idiography human life and nature are different because you cannot formulate general laws. Society exists when a number of people go through association. Symbolic interactions arise for our purposes and impulses (psychological). This unity is only there when there is a person with things that benefit you or affects you. Context whatever you are at the present moment. All of these can exist in a non-interaction form. A form of being with and for another. Context there can be conflict in love. Form conflict is a form that can be viewed in different contexts. The best way of looking at forms is looking at number of people interacting: dyadic two person interaction.
