TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fitzi, Gregor
T1  - Dialogue. Divergence. Veiled Reception. Criticism: Georg Simmel’s
relationship with Emile Durkheim
JF  - Journal of Classical Sociology
N2  - Simmel was the only German sociologist who directly cooperated with Durkheim. After an initial impression of convergence between the sociology of social facts and the sociology of social forms, a break between the two founders of sociology became inevitable. Yet, Durkheim and Simmel went on positioning themselves against one other in the years ahead. Durkheim’s allegation of ‘individual psychologism’ induced Simmel to a veiled reception of Durkheim’s methodological approach that permitted him to refine the sociological epistemology he eventually presented in the Soziologie published in 1908. On this basis, he was able to formulate a final criticism of the sociology of social facts as a social psychology.
KW  - Sociology of social facts
KW  - sociology of social forms
KW  - moral sociology
KW  - transnormative sociology
KW  - criticism of social psychology
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17735994
SN  - 1468-795X
SN  - 1741-2897
VL  - 17
SP  - 293
EP  - 308
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -