Ethical value-schemes map fortuitously onto objective social forms

Evidence

In considering sociological phenomena, we thus find a hierarchy of relationships. This hierarchy can also be constructed from the viewpoint of ethical categories, although ethical categories are generally not very suitable points of departure for the convenient and complete isolation of sociological elements. The value-feelings with which we accompany the actions of individual wills fall into certain series. But the relation between these series, on the one hand, and constructs of forms of social relation according to objective-conceptual viewpoints, on the other, is completely fortuitous. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 295

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nobility uniquely synthesized collective standardization with individual freedom — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 521; Lévi-Strauss’s deep structure decouples meaning from observable social relations; Situation-level symbolic transactions can influence society’s broader reproduction (+5 more)

Related

• Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure (similarity 0.81)
• Nobility uniquely synthesized collective standardization with individual freedom (similarity 0.80)
• Societal requirements transform into self-justifying norms devoid of social origin (similarity 0.80)
• Social orders integrate at the level of attributed motives (similarity 0.80)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.80)
• Socialism’s roots trace to ancient moral and ethical traditions (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Lévi-Strauss’s deep structure decouples meaning from observable social relations #expands (0.70)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #expands (0.65) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Situation-level symbolic transactions can influence society’s broader reproduction #corroborates (0.55)