Soc 1502 Learning Journal Unit 2 - University Of The People

This study source was downloaded by 100000865965430 from CourseHero.com on 05-07-2023 02:32:15 GMT -05:00https://www.coursehero.com/file/64556542/soc-1502-unit-2-LEARNING-JOURNALdocxdocx/ SOC 1502: Introduction to SociologyLearning Journal Unit 2 University of the People2nd July, 2020THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF GOERG SIMMEL TO THE BODY OF SOCIOLOGICALWORK.Goerg Simmel contributed massively to the body of sociology. He has been considered asone of the prominent sociologists and theorist that has ever lived. Goerg was born in BerlinGermany, on the 1 st of March 1858 and served the University of Berlin through teaching and theStrasbourg from 1914-1918. He based his studies on the Neo Kantian approach, which workedon the sociological structures. He also wrote essays that contributed to the aspects of qualitativeanalysis in the field of sociology (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2019)He based his research works in obedience and theory and that was what he was bestknown for. Goerg's studies also addressed the aspect of economy as he gave explanations on therole money plays and how that affects the social interactions, which is how people react to that inthe society. In the explanation he gave on money and economy, Goerg isolated the general formsof social interaction from the more specific kinds of activity, like politics, economic, aesthetics,and metaphysics (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2019).This study source was downloaded