Il povero

by Georg Simmel

Il povero, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1906 e successivamente incluso nella Soziologie del 1908, rappresenta uno degli scritti più importanti di Georg Simmel. Con la capacità di analisi che gli è propria, il sociologo tedesco dimostra che non è una mancanza personale o una semplice condizione di privazione a fare di qualcuno un povero, al contrario si entra a far parte di una cerchia sociale caratterizzata dalla povertà solo nel momento in cui si riceve un determinato tipo di assistenza. è quindi una “reazione sociale”, più o meno intensa, a dare forma concreta ad una figura complessa come quella del povero e a delineare le dinamiche di un fenomeno, come quello della povertà, che attraverso forme diverse continua a caratterizzare tutte le società finora conosciute.

Genres: Sociology

58 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1906

About the author

Georg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.

Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation. For Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Simmel discussed social and cultural phenomena in terms of "forms" and "contents" with a transient relationship; form becoming content, and vice versa, dependent on the context. In this sense he was a forerunner to structuralist styles of reasoning in the social sciences. With his work on the metropolis, Simmel was a precursor of urban sociology, symbolic interactionism and social network analysis. An acquaintance of Max Weber, Simmel wrote on the topic of personal character in a manner reminiscent of the sociological 'ideal type'. He broadly rejected academic standards, however, philosophically covering topics such as emotion and romantic love. Both Simmel and Weber's nonpositivist theory would inform the eclectic critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

Simmel's most famous works today are The Problems of the Philosophy of History (1892), The Philosophy of Money (1907), The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903), Soziologie (1908, inc. The Stranger, The Social Boundary, The Sociology of the Senses, The Sociology of Space, and On The Spatial Projections of Social Forms), and Fundamental Questions of Sociology (1917). He also wrote extensively on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as well on art, most notably his book Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art (1916).

Reviews

[sara tarragona · Rating 3 out of 5]

bueno doncs segons Simmel si m’insistiu en regalar-me coses llavors soc pobre 🤭

[Manuel Gagné · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ce livre a changé ma vision des gens démunis. De leur rôle dans notre système et de nos responsabilités face à eux. Ce n’est pas la plus légère des lectures mais importantes dans son contenu.

[Marina Pastor · Rating 3 out of 5]

seminari #5 fonaments socio

"el que fa al pobre no és el seu estat de necessitat. Des d'un punt de vista sociològic, és pobre únicament aquell la necessitat del qual acaba sent assistida"