Identical interaction forms recur across radically different social groups

Evidence

Superiority, subordination, competition, division of labor, formation of parties, representation, inner solidarity coupled with exclusiveness toward the outside, and innumerable similar features are found in the state as well as in a religious community, in a band of conspirators as in an economic association, in an art school as in a family. However diverse the interests that give rise to these sociations, the forms in which the interests are realized are identical. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 198

Categorization

• XREF: This form-over-content principle is exactly what lets Lofland describe stranger-categorization as a general urban form appearing across contexts. — connects to: In social games players perform the very structure of society itself — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 379; Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595; Extreme social control occurs in both the widest and narrowest circles simultaneously — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 641 (+15 more)

Related

• The same content persists across different interaction forms (similarity 0.90)
• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings (similarity 0.88)
• Social forms must be abstracted from many historical instances (similarity 0.84)
• Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character (similarity 0.83)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.82)
• Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.81)
• Societies require a mix of discord and harmony to take determinate shape (similarity 0.81)
• Order inside groups mirrors the same mutual-restraint mechanism as between groups (similarity 0.81)
• Social forms can be classified by the interpersonal distances they create (similarity 0.81)
• Marx decentered identity by lodging subjects inside un-chosen historical practices (similarity 0.81)
• Sociology’s proper object is the forms relating two or more individuals (similarity 0.81)
• The formal content distinction in sociology can only be illustrated, not yet defined (similarity 0.80)
• A science of society must study only forms of interaction (similarity 0.80)
• In social games players perform the very structure of society itself (similarity 0.80)
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Forms of interaction retain identity across varied contents and historical settings #corroborates (0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 202
• Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure #corroborates (0.60)