... with a Jewish background living in Nazi-Germany, he could certainly understand what it meant to be a stranger. While Simmel did in fact have great influence on the field of sociology, he also produced major works that may be classified as philosophy of history, ethics, general philosophy, philosophy ... be placed into any particular school of thought; however, he was very interested in the relativism of all items in many of these fields of study. This relativism is the idea that "all things are to be considered as interdependent, or as functions of each other."# Donald N. Levine's ... pr...

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... people think of themselves as individuals able to make their own choices in respect to behavior, there is often a strong tendency to conform to group patterns and expectations. We may seek out groups with interests similar to our own, or we may find ourselves in a group where we are made to feel that we ... in the minority. External group influences, either real or imagined, play a key role in determining behavior in these group situations. Both the Sherif and Asch experiments study the effects of group pressure on individuals and how that pressure leads them to the decision to conform to...

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