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Quotes from Superiority and Subordination as Subject-matter of Sociology — Georg Simmel

1858–1918 Germany

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I understand the task of sociology to be description and determination of the historical-psychological origin of those forms in which interactions take place between human beings. The totality of these interactions, springing from the most diverse impulses, directed toward the most diverse objects, and aiming at the most diverse ends, constitutes "society."

Superiority and Subordination as Subject-matter of Sociology (1896)

Every social occurrence as such, consists of an interaction between individuals. In other words, each individual is at the same time an active and a passive agent in a transaction. In case of superiority and inferiority, however, the relation assumes the appearance of a one-sided operation ; the one party appears to exert, while the other seems merely to receive an influence.

Superiority and Subordination as Subject-matter of Sociology (1896)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georg Simmel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.