SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jane Addams, Georg Simmel, Hull House
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Deeply influenced by pragmatist philosophy, protestantism, and progressivism. Focused on elaborating and practicing the social ethic in her work and writings. Addams social theory outlines society"s essential characteristics describes their. The work of the sociologist is to analyze the situation at hand in order to bring about and. Addams understands the individual social being as an embodied, agentic subjectivity, Addams point of theory is to report and analyze the situation at hand as a narrative of. Hence, for simmel, the essence of society lies in interactions. The organic view developed by comte, spencer, and durkheim. The abstract view articulated within german idealist philosophy. Pursuits led him into a number of directions that were not necessarily related. Simmel"s conception of society stood in contrast to: Society and the individual constitute an interdependent duality. Simmel sought to analyze forms in which interaction takes place. The existence of one presupposes the existence of the other.
