1958
DOI: 10.1086/222354
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The Challenge of Durkheim and Simmel

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“…The stranger who stands outside society is at times better able to analyze it in profound and original ways. He was an innovator who was “less deeply time‐bound” than other classical sociologists (Abel 1959: 474) and thus was able to develop valuable and useful concepts that continue to remain relevant in contemporary society, a point reiterated for at least the last fifty years (Abel 1959; Wolff 1958: 593). In particular, his substantive areas of inquiry and his theoretical focus on small groups resonate with several current preoccupations within sociology.…”
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“…The stranger who stands outside society is at times better able to analyze it in profound and original ways. He was an innovator who was “less deeply time‐bound” than other classical sociologists (Abel 1959: 474) and thus was able to develop valuable and useful concepts that continue to remain relevant in contemporary society, a point reiterated for at least the last fifty years (Abel 1959; Wolff 1958: 593). In particular, his substantive areas of inquiry and his theoretical focus on small groups resonate with several current preoccupations within sociology.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…as a talented but archaic figure who could readily be dispensed with in any proper scientific view of the discipline" of sociology. To make matters worse, there was only a sparse list of his works available in English up to the end of 1950s (Wolff 1964). So perhaps the most intriguing question is not why Simmel is unacknowledged by symbolic interactionists but how is it that his work has survived and continues to be the subject of repeated renaissance by a variety of interpretist researchers, micro-sociologists, postmodernists, and cultural theorists.…”
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“…Ese fue el argumento nuclear de uno de los pocos trabajos comparativos que poseemos sobre ambos autores, el deWolff (1958).…”
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