A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees.

Evidence

A given number of individuals, therefore, can be society to a greater or lesser degree, just as a given number of sounds can be music to a greater or lesser degree. Society as a form presents the ideality of a world awaiting actualization in history. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51

Categorization

• XREF: The degree of ‘societalness’ maps onto how much urban actors engage in civil inattention versus genuine interaction. — connects to: In social games players perform the very structure of society itself — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 379; A person can be socially poor yet individually wealthy — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 439; Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 608 (+13 more)

Related

• In social games players perform the very structure of society itself (similarity 0.85)
• Society names both actual human networks and the abstract forms of sociality (similarity 0.84)
• Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.84)
• Societies require a mix of discord and harmony to take determinate shape (similarity 0.82)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.82)
• Sociability among equals is an artificial stylized game, not a return to natural self (similarity 0.81)
• Class formation allows more positions than simple European Marxism permits. (similarity 0.81)
• Sociology’s proper object is the forms relating two or more individuals (similarity 0.81)
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.81)
• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.80)
• Every society develops its own solution to the problem of bureaucratic control. (similarity 0.80)
• Each person is a fragment even of their own singular type (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian rule dispenses with the consensus iuris that constitutes a people. (similarity 0.80)
• Numbers name the intermediate agent between individual and society that neither alone can enact (similarity 0.79)
• Humanity functions as an organizing idea, not a concrete entity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Societies require a mix of discord and harmony to take determinate shape #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 85
• A society is either racist or not; gradations are evasions. #contradicts (0.60)
• Modern capitalist societies experience themselves as pluralistic rather than unified #qualifies (0.50)