Simmel wrote essays on such topics as fashion, conflict, and flirtation. Use concrete examples from Simmel’s work and your own examples to explain their relationship and application to today’s world.

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Simmel’s intellectual interests spanned three disciplines: philosophy, history, and sociology (Levine 1971: xxi). Second, Simmel published works on aesthetics, ethics, religion, the philosophy of history, the philosophies of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and the metaphysics of individuality. Third, Simmel, unlike, say, Marx or Mead, did not set out to construct a coherent theoretical scheme, nor did he explicitly aim to develop a systematic critique of or to build on a specific theoretical paradigm. As a result, his work perhaps is best seen as a “collection of insights”

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A) binuclear families. B) single remarriages. C) double remarriages. D) the nuclear family model.

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Fill in the blanks with correct word

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