Every social relation is defined partly by how much secrecy it contains.

Evidence

Whether there is secrecy between two individuals or groups, and if so how much, is a question that characterizes every relation between them. For even where one of the two does not notice the existence of a secret, the behavior of the concealer, and hence the whole relationship, is certainly modified by it. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 8022

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s triad analysis: Raskolnikov concealing his crime restructures every relation he holds, whether or not others detect the secret.