Explain Simmel’s quote “I know I shall die without intellectual heirs, and that is how it should be” in the context of Simmel’s body of work and the discipline of sociology as a whole.

What will be an ideal response?


An overview of Simmel’s central sociological Ideas: (1) Simmel’s image of society (2) his view of sociology as a discipline (3) the plight of the individual in modern society

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When the troops entered the village they were

a. fired on by hostile troops. b. welcomed by the village leaders. c. neither fired on nor welcomed.

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The functionalist argument that an abundance of specialists encourages the use of expensive and sophisticated treatments when simpler ones would be just as effective refers to the issue of __________.

A. professional dominance B. restricted entry C. information D. misallocated supply

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The mental hospital became the common and preferred place of treatment for mental illness during the __________.

A. late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries B. late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries C. late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries D. late twentieth century

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For-profit colleges have higher graduation rates than not-for-profit colleges.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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