Simmel
Americannoun
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“For Durkheim, the content of religion was society; for Simmel, the form of religion was society,” Mr. Appiah writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Robinson is survived by her son, UTA co-founder and Chief Executive Jeremy Zimmer, and her daughter, Johanna Simmel, as well as eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
He noted a famous 1944 study by Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel, in which participants were shown an animated movie of two triangles and a circle interacting.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
Of course, it’s one of those German words that captures a vague but vast concept, as detailed by the German philosopher Georg Simmel, who wrote one of the earliest analyses of fashion.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023
Do you agree with Simmel when he says, "In and of themselves, these materials with which life is filled, these motivations which impel it, are not social in their nature"?
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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