The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies by Georg Simmel
Published 2017
How hard is The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies to read?
The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies scores 62 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 68 out of 100
- Early sociological vocabulary in dense translation.
- Sentence structure: 72 out of 100
- Long German-inflected periodic sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Secrecy treated as a pure social form.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Very compressed; each paragraph advances the theory.
How The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies is regarded
The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies holds a literary regard score of 69 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.