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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Simmel"”.
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
This dissertation considers whether Georg Simmel and Max Weber’s “canonisation in opposition” to each other in Anglophone sociology has obscured significant thematic and conceptual connections between them. It employs a genealogical method that focuses on episodic sites of interpretive struggle, …
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Was leistet Geld? Ein Vergleich der Theorien von Niklas Luhmann und Georg Simmel.
Moderne Gesellschaften zeichnen sich unter anderem dadurch aus, dass wirtschaftliche Transaktionen in der Regel durch Geld vollendet werden. In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit wird nun das Angebot gemacht, diese geldvermittelten Transaktionen als einen kommunikativen Akt zu begreifen. Im Gegensatz zu …
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Simmel In The Laboratory: An Experimental Investigation Into The Relationship Between Secrecy And Cohesion
… and cohesion – a proposition first made by Georg Simmel. More precisely, the study used the experimental method to investigate whether having members of a dyad share a secret with each other, increased cohesion in the dyad compared to a control. A hierarchical linear model was used to analyze the …
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From tragedy to dialectics: the theoretical significance of Lukács' path from Simmel to Marx.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Zur Reproduktion der Philosophie G.W.F. Hegels bei Georg Simmel und Emile Durkheim : Studien zu den Begriffen Kultur und Gesellschaft
Die Begriffe Kultur und Gesellschaft bei Simmel und Durkheim werden im Kontext der Philosophie Hegels dargestellt, analysiert und zusammengeführt. Ziel ist die Begründung eines Systems der Begriffe Kultur und Gesellschaft, in welchem die gesamte Wirklichkeit des Menschen als solche bestimmt und …
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My Power, My People: Exploring the Identity Management of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Employees in the Irish Workplace
… Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), The Stranger (Simmel, 1908), and Power (e.g. Fleming & Spicer, 2014). A number of findings are outlined in this thesis. Firstly, the role of power, in particular hegemonic heteronormativity, in the identity management of LGB employees is explored. The analysis …
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Beyond Cyberpessimism and Cyberoptimism: The Dual Nature of Social Network Site Interaction.
… from the pioneering social psychologist Georg Simmel (1858-1918) to the contemporary social media platform, Facebook. In opposition to previously-reported one-sided, polarized analyses (i.e. either/or, pessimistic or optimistic), this study suggests a more nuanced judgment: interaction viewed …
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Reality Play: A Sociological Analysis of Amusement
… themselves or others. In the tradition of Georg Simmel, this task is undertaken through the distillation of that particular form of interpersonal relations which is employed invariably for the production of mirth. Literal conduct is juxtaposed with humor in an effort to grasp the unique …
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Refugees and public health in the Cape Town area : treating the Other
… (Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Robert Ezra Park) and it is focused on the analysis of the more recent pattern of multiculturalism and citizenship (Loren Landau, Alessandro Dal Lago, Francesco Remotti, Jonathan Crush, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Jeremy Waldron, Etienne Balibar, …
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Place, role strain and health: A comparative study of the United States and Taiwan
… in society, traditional urban theories of Simmel, Wirth, and Fischer are introduced and juxtaposed against Friedan's perception that suburban middle class women have the worst health due to their isolation and inability to become free agents. These theories are significant in that they …
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Fact vs. Fiction: Uncovering the Experiences of Homeless/Street Youths' Involvement in Survival Sex
… & Piquero, 2013; Sapiro, Johnson, Postmus, & Simmel, 2016; Shared Hope International, 2015). The behavior of trading/selling sex is defined dichotomously within the literature. One body of literature, employs the term "survival sex" when empirical work focuses on trading/selling sex among …
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Rogue urban connections: an ethnography of trust and social relations in Observatory, Cape Town
… by 'strangers' in and of the environment (Simmel, [1908] 1971). Furthermore, I posit that there is a need to trust liminally and spatially in order to be able to function in an 'unruly', 'rogue' environment, specifically Observatory, Cape Town. This analysis focuses on five types of trust: …
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Die Dritte Seite der Medaille
… der 'Philosophie des Geldes' von Georg Simmel wird die Weltbild prägende Funktion des Geldes untersucht. Damit soll zugleich eine Grundlage für Ökonomie und Philosophie geschaffen werden, über die Fragen, die sich daraus ergeben, in einen fruchtbaren interdisziplinären Dialog einzutreten.
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The Role of Hardiness, Family Hardiness, and Parenting Self-Efficacy on Parenting Stress in Adoptive Parents
… stress and distress in adoptive parents (Brooks, Simmel, Wind, & Barth, 2005; McDonald, Lieberman, Partridge, & Homby, 1991; McGlone et al., 2002). Increased parenting stress has been associated with negative outcomes for both parent and child (Ang, 2008; Deater-Deckard, Smith, & Ivy 2005; Morgan, …
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Maker, Wearer, Viewer, Object: the reflexive destabilisation of brooches in a contemporary jewellery making practice
… the field of jewellery making. Sociologist Georg Simmel proposed that the structure of jewellery is composed of the Wearer and Viewer interaction. Jeweller and author Bruce Metcalf argued that the Maker plays a major role in addition to the Wearer and Viewer. However, I posit that the Object is of …
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A study of the status dilemmas and contradictions in certain occupations: the marginal woman
… and contradictions such authors as Georg Simmel, Robert E. Park, Robert Merton and Elinor Barber are perused. In reviewing the contemporary supportive literature, key authors include Jessie Bernard, Cynthia F. Epstein, Gerhard Lenski and David Knoke. In operationalizing status dilemmas, …
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City Limits: A Psychoanalysis of Urbanism and Everyday Life
… on urban life with theoretical support from Simmel.
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Intensitas ketidak jujuran akademik mahasiswa dalam evaluasi belajar
… (1969)dengan konsep pemaknaan/penafsiran, Georg Simmel (2002) dengan konsep keterkaitan kontrol sosial dengan interaksi sosial, K. Bertenz (2007) dengan konsep etika/moralitas. Penelitian ini merupakan studi deskriptif kuantitatif dengan pendekatan survey, yang bermaksud untuk mengeksplorasi dan …
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A Survey History of Islamic Da'wah and the Egyptian-Nigerian Connections
… theory, I am referring to (p. 67) that of George Simmel, not Karl Marx, who stresses domination and subjugation. Simmel stresses the socializing and unifying functions of conflict. I have equated the rationale of Islamic <em>jihad</em> (holy war) to Simmel's conflict functionalism. Further, I have …
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Depression and 'crises of meaninglessness' in the political-economic theology of the money-God
… builds upon the classical accounts of Georg Simmel, Émile Durkheim and the more contemporary ideas of Dany-Robert Dufour, in dialogue with an array of supplementary theoretical sources. Navigating through this ‘sea’ of extraordinary and different theories, a new avenue of reflections arises, …
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