Georg Simmel (1858-1918)

THE SIMMEL QUIZ

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1. Where was Simmel born?

StrasbourgBonnBerlin

2. In what University did Simmel eventually become a full Professor of sociology in 1910?



StrasbourgBonnBerlin

3. What does Simmel suggest to be the four mental 'attitudes' produced by city life?



Indifference; Calculation; urbanication; Blase attitude
Indifference; Blase attitude; Intellectualisation; urbanication
Calculation; Indifference; Intellectualisation; Blase attitude

4. Which of the following best defines Simmel's notion of the stranger?



The person who enters the community and leaves after a short time

The person who passes through the community

The person who enters the community and stays

5. Which artistic movement did Frisby suggest inspired Simmel's sociology?



CubismImpressionismPre-Raphaelite

6. Which of the following best expresses Simmel's methodology?


Methodological Holism

Methodological Individualism

Methodological Relationalism

7. What, according to Simmel, happens to 'objective culture' as modernity progresses?


It becomes more 'popular' 

It becomes reified 

It becomes more sophisticated

8. What is a 'flaneur'?


A baker

Someone who strolls the city looking for a bargain 

Someone who walks the city just to experience it

9. What did Simmel mean by a 'social form'?


A pattern of social behaviour which is repeated over at least three generations

A pattern of social behaviour which is only enacted once and then completely forgotten

An official questionnaire which must be filled in by all people who wish to join society

10.Simmel's work is often described philosophically as:


Neo-Lockean Neo-MarxistNeo-Kantian

11. What did Simmel mean by sociability?


The play form of human association

The conflict form of human association

The associative form of human association

12. What did Simmel mean by relationality?


Sociology is the study of social relations

Some things are related to one another but others are not

Everything and everyone is related to one another

13. Why did Simmel study fashion?


Fashion demonstrates the extent to which individuals both wish to be members of a group/society and yet remain in some sense distinctive individuals

Fashion demonstrates the extent to which individuals want to show-off and get noticed by others

Fashion demonstrates the extent to which individuals both wish to be members of a group/society and members of other groups/societies