People 


Georg Simmel 1858 -1918   Germany


Encyclopedia Entries

Columbian Encyclopedia

Georg Simmel - Wikipedia,


Questions of 

sociology as the science of social forms

Reading

On Individuality and Social Forms: Selected Writings, ed. and with an introd. by D. N. Levine (1971)


Writing Available on the Internet


 Commentary

 biography by D. Frisby (1984); 

essays by and about Simmel, edited by K. H. Wolff (1965); 

studies by N. J. Spykman (1925, repr. 1964), L. A. Coser (1965), and D. Frisby (1981).


Quotations


CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY SSR Prelim Summary Archive

Simmel, Georg Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms.. Edited by Donald N. Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971, chs. 3, 5, 6, 7, 16, 24.
_________.The Sociology of Georg Simmel. Translated by Kurt H. Wolff. Glencoe IL: Free Press, 1964, Pt. 2 [ch. 1 ([the sociological] significance of [group size]), ch. 3 ('The Isolated Individual and the Dyad'), ch. 4 ('The Triad')], pp. 307-16 ('Knowledge, Truth, and Falsehood in Human Relations'), pp. 379-95 ('Faithfulness and Gratitude').