Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology

This chapter dwells on Georg Simmel’s concept of form, concretely of ‘forms of association’ (Formen der Vergesellschaftung). Simmel argued that the study of the forms of association had to become the specific object of study for the discipline of sociology as it offered the newborn discipline the po...

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Autor: Cantó-Milà, Natàlia
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_11
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Palabra clave:relational sociology
forms of sociation
Georg Simmel
forms of the second order
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spelling Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational SociologyCantó-Milà, Natàliarelational sociologyforms of sociationGeorg Simmelforms of the second orderThis chapter dwells on Georg Simmel’s concept of form, concretely of ‘forms of association’ (Formen der Vergesellschaftung). Simmel argued that the study of the forms of association had to become the specific object of study for the discipline of sociology as it offered the newborn discipline the possibility of shedding light upon an object of knowledge that no other discipline had dealt with until then. Furthermore, Simmel presented sociology as a discipline that concentrated neither on individuals nor on society as a whole but rather on the invisible threads that bind us and weave society together. This chapter seeks to bring these two lines of Simmelian thought together (the study of forms of association and relational sociology), arguing that the concept of forms of association (with its different typologies) offers us a great analytical tool for pursuing relational sociology today.Palgrave Macmillan, Cham202420242018info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10609/150947https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_11reponame:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOCinstname:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)InglésThe Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology, 2018https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66005-9_11© 2018 The Author(s)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/1509472026-05-28T12:42:01Z
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title Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
spellingShingle Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
Cantó-Milà, Natàlia
relational sociology
forms of sociation
Georg Simmel
forms of the second order
title_short Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
title_full Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
title_fullStr Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
title_full_unstemmed Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
title_sort Georg Simmel’s Concept of Forms of Association as an Analytical Tool for Relational Sociology
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv relational sociology
forms of sociation
Georg Simmel
forms of the second order
topic relational sociology
forms of sociation
Georg Simmel
forms of the second order
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