Every marginal group-size change alters its sociological form

Evidence

To each particular number of elements, according to the purpose and significance of their grouping, there corresponds a sociological form, organization, firmness, stability, relation of whole to parts, etc., which changes with each added or subtracted element, although the change may be immeasurably small and not ascertainable. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 3597

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s interest: adding one witness (third party) changes the dyadic guilt relation into a triad — a tiny numeric change with qualitative social effect.

Related

• Proportionally matched growth still alters a group’s internal relations (similarity 0.84)
• Group size alone erases types of interaction that small groups display (similarity 0.80)
• Dyad and triad dynamics arise from element interactions, not group size (similarity 0.80)
• Larger groups necessarily meet on a lower, more banal common level (similarity 0.79)