Simmel as a Resource for Sociological Metatheory

Last year I attended a conference at Albany convened to explore some frontier issues in sociological theory. Through two days of discussions, the hallowed trinity of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber dominated virtually all of the references to classic authors. As so often happens, the name of Simmel was conspicuous by its absence. More visibly, something similar occurred at the conference of the ISA Research