(PDF) "Excursus on the Stranger" in the Context of Simmel's Sociology
Review of "Stranger" by Georg Simmel
Review of "Stranger" by Georg Simmel
Reading Georg Simmel "The Stranger" , with (surprisingly) random comments interjected
critical//contextual: Georg Simmel 'The Stranger' (1908)
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The Stranger (essay)
The Stranger" is an essay by Georg Simmel, originally written as an excursus to a chapter dealing with the sociology of space in his book Soziologie. [1] In this essay, Simmel introduced the notion of "the stranger" as a unique sociological category. He differentiates the stranger both from the "outsider" who has no specific relation to a group ...
A Sociological Essay "The Stranger" by Georg Simmel Essay
The stranger has an ability to combine indifference and involvement, making him/her well-suited to be a judge, for example (Simmel, 1972). I would argue that this is also only partially the case. While it is evident that the stranger cannot have a personal stake in a situation, his/her judgment is still influenced by both his/her inherent ...
The return of "The Stranger": Distance, proximity and the
The year 2008 marks the centenary of the first publication of Georg Simmel's essay "The Stranger" ("Der Fremde"), in which the opposition between geographical proximity and distance and social proximity and distance was originally proposed and expounded in an explicit and theoretically cogent way.This article aims, first, to set the essay in its wider historical and theoretical ...
Georg Simmel's Concept of the Stranger and Intercultural Communication
Abstract. The stranger, defined by Georg Simmel as an individual who is a member of a system but who is not strongly attached to the system, influenced (1) such important concepts as social distance, the marginal man, heterophily, and cosmopoliteness, (2) the value on objectivity in social science research, and (3) to a certain extent, the specialty field of intercultural communication.
Georg Simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge
Georg Simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge. The Simmelian stranger has been extensively studied and critiqued. This paper suggests that although this body of literature has contributed to a conceptual refinement of the category, its analysis confines itself to Simmel's seminal essay on the stranger. A broader and deeper analysis ...
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Georg SimmelIf wandering is the liberation from every given point in space, and thus the conceptional opposite to fixation at such a point, the sociological form of the "stranger" presents the unity, as it were, of these two cha. acteristics. This phenomenon too, however, reveals that spatial relations are only the condition, on the one hand ...
The Stranger, Othering, and the Epistemology of Difference in African
Abstract. The "stranger" and strangeness have become key notions of our negotiated encounters of those considered foreign to our community, ways of life, and our lived world. Noting that the phenomenon has been conceptually examined beginning with the work of Georg Simmel "Der Fremde" ("The Stranger"), the chapter employs the early ...
Simmel's 'Stranger': A Critique of the Concept
Simmel's 'Stranger': A Critique of the Concept*. S. DALE MCLEMORE. The University of Texas at Austin. The "stranger" is but one of the many Sociologists have responded, and still are intriguing concepts which contemporary responding, to several insights contained sociologists have received from the fertile within Simmel's (1908) brief essay; how-.
Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge
The Simmelian stranger has been extensively studied and critiqued. This paper suggests that although this body of literature has contributed to a conceptual refinement of the category, its analysis confines itself to Simmel's seminal essay on the stranger.
The Stranger
Schütz, Alfred (1944) `The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology', American Journal of Sociology 49: 499-507. Google Scholar. Shack, William A. (1979) `Introduction', ... Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar. City Performances within Confidence Games.
Simmel's 'Stranger': A Critique of the Concept
Greenhoe, Florence . 1941 Community Contacts and Participation of Teachers. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs. Google Scholar. Greifer, Julian L. 1945 "Attitudes to the stranger: A study of the attitudes of primitive society and early Hebrew culture.". American Sociological Review 10 (December): 739 - 745.
Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge
Simmel's (1908Simmel's ( /1999 seminal essay depicts strangeness as a newcomer living in our midst yet distant from us. It has been argued that Simmel's stranger can no longer reflect contemporary ...
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel was born in Berlin, Germany, as the youngest of seven children to an assimilated Jewish family. His father, Eduard Simmel (1810-1874), a prosperous businessman and convert to Roman Catholicism, had founded a confectionery store called "Felix & Sarotti" that would later be taken over by a chocolate manufacturer.His mother Flora Bodstein (1818-1897) came from a Jewish family who ...
Georg Simmel, Strangeness, and the Stranger
In David Malouf's novels An Imaginary Life, Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek the phenomenon of strangeness appears in different shapes. One way to understand the concepts of starnger and strangeness is to employ the sociological approach advanced by Georg Simmel's brief "Essay about the Stranger" ("Exkurs über den ...
How Georg Simmel diagnosed what makes city life distinctly modern
Syndicate this essay. Georg Simmel was born in the heart of Berlin in 1858. That city epitomised the tensions of Germany's special path to modernity. Rapid urbanisation and financial speculation propelled Berlin to the world stage. An avant-garde cultural elite flourished uneasily alongside central Europe's aristocracy while a young ...
Georg Simmel's Concept of the Stranger and Intercultural Communication
The stranger, defined by Georg Simmel as an individual who is a member of a system but who is not strongly attached to the system, influenced (1) such important concepts as social distance, the marginal man, heterophily, and cosmopoliteness, (2) the value on objectivity in social science research, and (3) to a certain extent, the specialty field of intercultural communication.
The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice
In 1908, Georg Simmel, a German Jewish sociologist, published an essay called "The Stranger." The stranger, he writes, "is not a wanderer, who may come today and leave tomorrow. He comes today—and stays." This was Fanon's experience throughout his life: as a soldier in the French army, as a West Indian medical student in Lyon, as a ...
Cultural Reader: Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel's famous and influential essay "The Stranger" introduces the sociological category of the stranger and his social function within groups. According to Simmel's argument the stranger is dissimilar from the wanderer which comes and goes but is rather just one who always has that potential since he doesn't truly and fully belong ...
How does Simmel's analysis of the stranger apply to current U.S
The stranger is a unique social category that combines closeness with distance. 2. Simmel argues that the stranger is often an immigrant, and he uses the example of traders to explain his ideas ...
(PDF) The Stranger
Organised both chronologically and thematically, it begins with Simmel's major essays on the stranger and culminates with an analysis of Zygmunt Bauman's thought on the subject, with each ...
The Stranger
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as 'strange', and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger.
The Stranger
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as 'strange', and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised ...
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The Stranger" is an essay by Georg Simmel, originally written as an excursus to a chapter dealing with the sociology of space in his book Soziologie. [1] In this essay, Simmel introduced the notion of "the stranger" as a unique sociological category. He differentiates the stranger both from the "outsider" who has no specific relation to a group ...
The stranger has an ability to combine indifference and involvement, making him/her well-suited to be a judge, for example (Simmel, 1972). I would argue that this is also only partially the case. While it is evident that the stranger cannot have a personal stake in a situation, his/her judgment is still influenced by both his/her inherent ...
The year 2008 marks the centenary of the first publication of Georg Simmel's essay "The Stranger" ("Der Fremde"), in which the opposition between geographical proximity and distance and social proximity and distance was originally proposed and expounded in an explicit and theoretically cogent way.This article aims, first, to set the essay in its wider historical and theoretical ...
Abstract. The stranger, defined by Georg Simmel as an individual who is a member of a system but who is not strongly attached to the system, influenced (1) such important concepts as social distance, the marginal man, heterophily, and cosmopoliteness, (2) the value on objectivity in social science research, and (3) to a certain extent, the specialty field of intercultural communication.
Georg Simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge. The Simmelian stranger has been extensively studied and critiqued. This paper suggests that although this body of literature has contributed to a conceptual refinement of the category, its analysis confines itself to Simmel's seminal essay on the stranger. A broader and deeper analysis ...
Georg SimmelIf wandering is the liberation from every given point in space, and thus the conceptional opposite to fixation at such a point, the sociological form of the "stranger" presents the unity, as it were, of these two cha. acteristics. This phenomenon too, however, reveals that spatial relations are only the condition, on the one hand ...
Abstract. The "stranger" and strangeness have become key notions of our negotiated encounters of those considered foreign to our community, ways of life, and our lived world. Noting that the phenomenon has been conceptually examined beginning with the work of Georg Simmel "Der Fremde" ("The Stranger"), the chapter employs the early ...
Simmel's 'Stranger': A Critique of the Concept*. S. DALE MCLEMORE. The University of Texas at Austin. The "stranger" is but one of the many Sociologists have responded, and still are intriguing concepts which contemporary responding, to several insights contained sociologists have received from the fertile within Simmel's (1908) brief essay; how-.
The Simmelian stranger has been extensively studied and critiqued. This paper suggests that although this body of literature has contributed to a conceptual refinement of the category, its analysis confines itself to Simmel's seminal essay on the stranger.
Schütz, Alfred (1944) `The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology', American Journal of Sociology 49: 499-507. Google Scholar. Shack, William A. (1979) `Introduction', ... Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar. City Performances within Confidence Games.
Greenhoe, Florence . 1941 Community Contacts and Participation of Teachers. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs. Google Scholar. Greifer, Julian L. 1945 "Attitudes to the stranger: A study of the attitudes of primitive society and early Hebrew culture.". American Sociological Review 10 (December): 739 - 745.
Simmel's (1908Simmel's ( /1999 seminal essay depicts strangeness as a newcomer living in our midst yet distant from us. It has been argued that Simmel's stranger can no longer reflect contemporary ...
Georg Simmel was born in Berlin, Germany, as the youngest of seven children to an assimilated Jewish family. His father, Eduard Simmel (1810-1874), a prosperous businessman and convert to Roman Catholicism, had founded a confectionery store called "Felix & Sarotti" that would later be taken over by a chocolate manufacturer.His mother Flora Bodstein (1818-1897) came from a Jewish family who ...
In David Malouf's novels An Imaginary Life, Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek the phenomenon of strangeness appears in different shapes. One way to understand the concepts of starnger and strangeness is to employ the sociological approach advanced by Georg Simmel's brief "Essay about the Stranger" ("Exkurs über den ...
Syndicate this essay. Georg Simmel was born in the heart of Berlin in 1858. That city epitomised the tensions of Germany's special path to modernity. Rapid urbanisation and financial speculation propelled Berlin to the world stage. An avant-garde cultural elite flourished uneasily alongside central Europe's aristocracy while a young ...
The stranger, defined by Georg Simmel as an individual who is a member of a system but who is not strongly attached to the system, influenced (1) such important concepts as social distance, the marginal man, heterophily, and cosmopoliteness, (2) the value on objectivity in social science research, and (3) to a certain extent, the specialty field of intercultural communication.
In 1908, Georg Simmel, a German Jewish sociologist, published an essay called "The Stranger." The stranger, he writes, "is not a wanderer, who may come today and leave tomorrow. He comes today—and stays." This was Fanon's experience throughout his life: as a soldier in the French army, as a West Indian medical student in Lyon, as a ...
Georg Simmel's famous and influential essay "The Stranger" introduces the sociological category of the stranger and his social function within groups. According to Simmel's argument the stranger is dissimilar from the wanderer which comes and goes but is rather just one who always has that potential since he doesn't truly and fully belong ...
The stranger is a unique social category that combines closeness with distance. 2. Simmel argues that the stranger is often an immigrant, and he uses the example of traders to explain his ideas ...
Organised both chronologically and thematically, it begins with Simmel's major essays on the stranger and culminates with an analysis of Zygmunt Bauman's thought on the subject, with each ...
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as 'strange', and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger.
This book explores the concept of the stranger as a 'modern' social form, identifying the differing conceptions of strangerhood presented in the literature since the publication of Georg Simmel's influential essay 'The Stranger', questioning the assumptions around what it means to be regarded as 'strange', and identifying the consequences of being labelled a stranger. Organised ...