Il contributo della teoria del conflitto di Georg Simmel alla sociologia delle diversità e differenze

Over the past decades, social sciences have increasingly focused on changing variables that explain differences and inequalities among people and individuals, and especially on what transforms the first into the second. The analysis of society as a system of differences has contributed to sociology's strategic role. This is true in particular since Simmel's conflict theory and his approach to tension between opposites, which leads towards a common reality where individuals, groups and institutions evolve in a dense networks of conflicts and a subsequent unity among diverse people. The paper aims to verify the hypothesis that Simmel's theory could provide a useful sociological interpretation of the contemporary social conflict. [Publisher's text].