SIMMEL, Georg.

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Soziologie. Untersuchungen über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung. First edition of the text by which Simmel first came to be known to Anglo-American scholars, composed largely of a number of articles written by him during the preceding fifteen years."Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund... Such distinctive concepts of contemporary sociology as social distance, marginality, urbanism as a way of life, role-playing, social behaviour as exchange, conflict as an integrating process... embody ideas which Simmel adumbrated six decades ago" (Donald N. Levine in his 1971 introduction to Georg Simmel: on Individuality and Social Forms).

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