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Article: On the Town with Georg Simmel: A Socio-Religious Understanding of Urban Interaction.(religious sociologist)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
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- March 22, 2001
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Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was a founder of the German Sociological Association and lived the majority of his life in the city of Berlin. One area of research to which Simmel frequently returned was the documenting of how our social, geographical and physical lives shaped our spiritual lives, and how our spirituality shaped our social and physical environments. He searched the urban landscape for the material and spiritual evidence of this interactive construction of everyday life. When he did not confine himself to a reporting of physical and sociological realities (data), and ventured into what he called "the soul" or the "inner life," his critics declared that he had no ...
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Dictionary definition: Simmel, Georg
A Dictionary of Sociology;
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... ... all in D. N. Levine ( ed.) , Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms ... s numerous publications about Simmel give a good account of his sociological ... neglect (see, for example, his Georg Simmel , 1984 ). See also FORMALISM ...
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