Simmel Bio
Simmel received his PhD in this field.
What is philosophy?
The upper class uses fashion to distance themselves from this.
What is the lower class?
Simmel uses this term to describe when the products of human creativity come to dominate individual will.
What is tragedy of culture?
Simmel coined these terms to describes groups of two and three people.
What is dyad and triad?
Simmel was born in this German city in 1858.
What is Berlin?
Simmel believed that extreme obedience to fashion and _____________ were two sides of the same coin.
What is conscious neglect?
This is the term Simmel uses to describe the psychological device that protects the individual from feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of city life.
What is a blase attitude?
Coalitions are likely to form in this small group size.
What is triad?
Simmel’s intellectual interests were so broad they spanned these three specific academic fields.
What is philosophy, history and sociology?
Simmel believed this group used fashion to assert individuality because of their unequal position in society.
Who are women and/or young people?
"Punctuality, calculability and exactness" are all examples of this.
What is rationality?
Simmel coined this mathematical term to describe his focus on social forms.
What is social geometry?
Simmel taught at this university on a freelance basis.
University of Berlin
Simmel believed that obsolescence was built into fashion because of this.
What is capitalism (or mass production)?
Metropolis and Mental Life was first delivered in this format.
What is a lecture at a municipal exhibition?
Simmel once said "if all the watches in Berlin suddenly went wrong," disaster would ensure. Which British industry was the first to adopt standard times to avoid the confusion of setting time according to the sun?
What is the British railroads?
Simmel finally received a full professorship at this university when he was 56 years old.
What is the University of Strasbourg?
According to Simmel, once a fashion becomes widely disseminated and takes on an air of "this," it is officially no longer fashionable.
What is permanence?
Name one element of modernity that leads to the tragedy of culture.
What is:
(Either of these is correct)
- urbanization
- money and markets?
Which of these topics did Simmel NOT write about:
On Secrecy
On Flirtation
On Social Isolation
What is social isolation?