Sociologia do espaço

Abstract

This is Georg Simmel's first essay on the role of space in social life-particularly in the interactive orderings which make it possible to term them forms of sociation (Formen der Vergesellschaftung). Its starting point is a specific concept of space, as a human way of linking sensorial stimuli together into unitary visions. Subsequently the paper reflexively ventures upon the "fundamental qualities of the spatial form", which are tackled in five sections (which in turn are respectively introduced with the aid of the first five letters of the alphabet: a) exclusivity; b) limit; c) fixation; d) the relationship between sensorial proximity and distance; e) the possibility of changing place.