Personal and collective frames are both standpoints, not reality versus abstraction
Evidence
Individual and society are, both for historical understanding and for normative judgment, methodological concepts. This is so either in that they divide given events and conditions among themselves or in that they deal with the unity of the given, which we cannot directly comprehend, by organizing it under two different points of view, comparable to the way a picture is considered now as a physiological and optical phenomenon, now as a cultural product, or now with respect to the technique of painting, now with respect to its content and aesthetic value. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213; Personal and political framing both shrink problems but operate in opposite directions. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1266
Related
- Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.85)
- Personal and political framing both shrink problems but operate in opposite directions. (similarity 0.82)
- Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.79)
- Numbers name the intermediate agent between individual and society that neither alone can enact (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities
#corroborates(0.95) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213