1. Georg Simmel Alyssa Arble and Abdullah Hasanuddin

2. Background Born March 1, 1858 in Berlin German micro-sociologist and founder of the Formal School of sociology Lecturer and professor 1908: Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation Many of these articles were very popular in the United States and in The American Journal of Sociology Robert Park and Ernest Burgess (Concentric Zone Model) accredited their classic, Introduction to the Science of Sociology, to Simmel

3. Influences Husserl Marx Weber Darwin Spencer Kant/Neo-Kantian Comte

4. Key Concepts Formal Sociology Social Types The stranger The spendthrift The mediator The adventurer The renegade The poor

5. Key Concepts Dialectical Thinking Social Geometry Dyad Triad Superordination and subordination

6. Key Concepts Sociability Tact and impersonality Sociability thresholds The “Sociability Drive” and the Democratic of Sociability The artificial world of sociability Social games Coquerty Conversation Sociability as the play-form of ethical problems and of their solution Historical Illustrations The “superficial” character of sociability

7. Key Concepts Secrecy The Secret Society Philosophy of Money

8. Key Concepts Exchange Mass Culture

9. How these concepts help us understand Society The forms of interaction patterns. “Forms of interaction do exist and are subject to systematic analysis” Guide for microsociology

10. Social Geometry : Numbers Dyad and Triad Bystander effect Devide Et Impera The art of war British on Malaysia prior to 1957

11. Social Types: The Stranger Neighborhood

12. Superordinate and Subordinate There will always be a leader and follower in social world Sports Education Company Family Country Religion

13. Secrecy Secret defines society, based on Ratio of Secrecy Family: more secret, more intimacy Company Presidential Campaign

14. Philosophy of Money Once money replaced barter system, the human interaction process is forever changed Money define everything’s worth People quantify things instead of qualify Haute Couture Macaroon Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft