1.  interested in understanding human behavior and relationships in an ahistorical setting.

     2.  association and conflict between individuals and social groups not only can exist side by side but are intimately related. Groups are not self-contained.

     3.  Society is integrated by numerous cross-cutting conflicts.

     4. Social action always involves harmony and conflict

Concepts

    Society – interdependent

        Duality – opposites combining into a whole

    Differentiation/individuality    conformity/imitation

    Social interaction – sociation  association

    Form and content

    Sociology – study of social interaction

        Commonalities  reciprocal realtionships

    Tragedy of culture – objective/subjective

        Money – rationalization of social life

    Secrecy

Anti-semitism

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