Daniel Silver reads Georg Simmel

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life (2020), joins us to discuss and read from Georg Simmel’s Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms (first published in 1908).

Be sure to check out Dan’s co-authored essay on Simmel’s three concepts of form and his co-authored article tracing Simmel’s influence within American sociology since 1975.