{"title":"Grupper af fremmede - at sidde alene på café i København","authors":"Andreas Volquartz Overgaard","doi":"10.22439/DANSOC.V26I3.5053","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Denne artikel har til formal at diskutere den sociologiske figur ”den fremmede i storbyen” igennem en teoretisk bearbejdelse af Georg Simmels Storbyerne og det andelige liv og af hans Ekskurs om den fremmede samt af Gernot Bohmes atmosfaerebegreb. Konklusionerne underbygges af en kvalitativ analyse af storbyboere, der sidder alene pa to udvalgte cafeer i Kobenhavn. Artiklen argumenterer indledningsvis for, at ”den fremmede” indtager en afgorende rolle i markante storbysociologiske positioners made at fortolke storbyens sociale liv pa – og at forstaelsen af dette liv tager udgangspunkt i den fremmedes ambivalente karakter og derved implicerer, at denne er en potentiel kilde til uorden. Dette syn saetter jeg sporgsmalstegn ved og argumenterer for, at oplevelsen af den fremmede ikke kun kan kendetegnes ved ambivalens og uorden, men ogsa ved en mere umiddelbar oplevelse af vedkommende – trygheden i at fornemme og sanse den andens naervaer i en bestemt rumlig atmosfaere. Endeligt argumenterer jeg for, at Simmels egen teori danner fundamentet for en sadan sanselig oplosning af ambivalens hos den fremmede i storbyen. \n \n \nENGELSK ABSTRACT: \n \nAndreas Volquartz Overgaard: Groups of Strangers: Sitting Alone in a Cafe in Copenhagen \nThis article discusses the sociological concept of ”the stranger in the metropolis” by way of a theoretical discussion of Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental life and The stranger. Gernot Bohme’s concept of atmosphere is employed to broaden Simmel’s conceptual framework. The empirical basis is a qualitative analysis of city dwellers who sit alone in two cafes in Copenhagen. In the introduction, the article argues that ”the stranger” plays a crucial role in the way important urban sociological theoretical positions understand the social life of the metropolis – and that these positions base their arguments on the ambivalent character of ”the stranger”, thereby implying him to be a potential source for disorder. I question these perspectives and argue that the experience of the stranger can not only be described through ambivalence and disorder, but also through an immediate experience of the stranger – the safety in feeling and sensing the presence of the other in a specific spatial atmosphere. Finally, I argue that Simmel’s own theory creates the basis for such a sensory dissolving of the stranger’s ambivalence in the metropolis. \n \nKeywords: Simmel, the stranger, the metropolis, atmosphere, the cafe.","PeriodicalId":85215,"journal":{"name":"Nordisk psykologi","volume":"26 1","pages":"35-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nordisk psykologi","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22439/DANSOC.V26I3.5053","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Denne artikel har til formal at diskutere den sociologiske figur ”den fremmede i storbyen” igennem en teoretisk bearbejdelse af Georg Simmels Storbyerne og det andelige liv og af hans Ekskurs om den fremmede samt af Gernot Bohmes atmosfaerebegreb. Konklusionerne underbygges af en kvalitativ analyse af storbyboere, der sidder alene pa to udvalgte cafeer i Kobenhavn. Artiklen argumenterer indledningsvis for, at ”den fremmede” indtager en afgorende rolle i markante storbysociologiske positioners made at fortolke storbyens sociale liv pa – og at forstaelsen af dette liv tager udgangspunkt i den fremmedes ambivalente karakter og derved implicerer, at denne er en potentiel kilde til uorden. Dette syn saetter jeg sporgsmalstegn ved og argumenterer for, at oplevelsen af den fremmede ikke kun kan kendetegnes ved ambivalens og uorden, men ogsa ved en mere umiddelbar oplevelse af vedkommende – trygheden i at fornemme og sanse den andens naervaer i en bestemt rumlig atmosfaere. Endeligt argumenterer jeg for, at Simmels egen teori danner fundamentet for en sadan sanselig oplosning af ambivalens hos den fremmede i storbyen.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT:
Andreas Volquartz Overgaard: Groups of Strangers: Sitting Alone in a Cafe in Copenhagen
This article discusses the sociological concept of ”the stranger in the metropolis” by way of a theoretical discussion of Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental life and The stranger. Gernot Bohme’s concept of atmosphere is employed to broaden Simmel’s conceptual framework. The empirical basis is a qualitative analysis of city dwellers who sit alone in two cafes in Copenhagen. In the introduction, the article argues that ”the stranger” plays a crucial role in the way important urban sociological theoretical positions understand the social life of the metropolis – and that these positions base their arguments on the ambivalent character of ”the stranger”, thereby implying him to be a potential source for disorder. I question these perspectives and argue that the experience of the stranger can not only be described through ambivalence and disorder, but also through an immediate experience of the stranger – the safety in feeling and sensing the presence of the other in a specific spatial atmosphere. Finally, I argue that Simmel’s own theory creates the basis for such a sensory dissolving of the stranger’s ambivalence in the metropolis.
Keywords: Simmel, the stranger, the metropolis, atmosphere, the cafe.