Can Community Exist In A Big city Flashcards
The German school: gemeinschaft community
Social relationships that include neighbourliness and informal social control and that values the needs of a group over the individuals
Gesellschaft (society)
Formal, impersonal, and individualistic in nature
Georg simmel
2 observations about modern life
- Struggle to maintain our sense of individuality
2. We have more personal freedom than at any time in human history
The metropolis and mental life
Attempt of the individual to maintain the independence and individuality of his or her existence against the sovereign powers of society
Individuality: enlightenment
Personal freedom and responsibility
Individuality: romantic
Ability and desire to distinguish oneself from all other people
“As group size grows, individuality increase”
Characteristics change - individual characteristics chance and vice versa
Small group - people inside are similar
Group grows - more unique , more concerned with themselves
Group affiliations (pre modern)
- The individuals (most immediate group is their families
- Village: a bunch of families, marrying into the same group of families on the same village
- Multiple villages: within the nations and then a whole bunch of nations in a religious group
= the most different people are the individuals at the end - only thing in common is the religious affiliation
Modern society
All kinds of different groups that may not over lap at all
We choose what we want to be a part of
Psychological reactions
- They become more calculating and less feeling
2. Develop the blasé attitude, which mutes their feelings and passions
Simmel on money
Flatten social life and reduces interaction
Suppresses qualitative differences in favour of quantitative
Blase attitude
Unconcerned , uncaring
