Georg Simmel (1858-1918)

THE SIMMEL QUIZ

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1. What is Simmel's term for 'society' ?

community groupsociality

2. Which 'social type' does Simmel suggest to be most significant to modern city life?


The strangler The stranger The urbaniteThe city-dweller

3. Why was the 'triad' so significant in Simmel's sociology?


Three's a crowd  The third party could control a dyadIt was the basis of social forms

4. Why did Simmel place so much significance on, what he referred to as 'play'?


Play is fun 

It's an essential part of socialisation 

It's the activity that marks humans off from other animals.

5. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of the modern mentality said by Simmel to be produced by modern city life?


Urbanification Indifference Calculation

6. Which of the following best expresses Simmel's view of the modern individual?


The fathomless individual 

The fractured individual 

The fragmented individual

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 strolls the city as a tourist might 

Someone who strolls the city aimlessly.

9. Apart from city-life, what, for Simmel, is the other social form which produces a modern mentality of abstraction and calculation?


Pocket calculators 

Money 

Modern architecture

10. What is the term used to suggest the manner in which social institutions appear to later generations as 'natural' and immutable.


Memory loss Ratification Reification