Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Simmel and the Chicago Sociologists
1. Translation as Social Action: The Early American Simmel Translations
2. Park, Doyle, and Hughes: Neglected Antecedents of Goffman's Theory of Ceremony
Part Two: Simmel and Functionalist Sociology
3. Simmel's Contribution to Parson's Action Theory and Its Fate
4. A Note on Kaspar D. Naegele
5. Robert K. Merton's Extension of Simmel's Ubersehbar
6. The Historical and Contemporary Importance of Coser's Functions
Part Three: Simmel as Modernist and Postmodernist
7. Georg Simmel Reconsidered, by Albert Salomon
Edited, with an Introduction and Notes by Gary D. Jaworski
8. Simmel and the American Postmodernists
Notes
References
Index