Simmel offers a transactional counterparadigm stressing individual experience and distance.

Evidence

Beyond all particulars, Simmel’s image of society may provide a continuing challenge to conceptions of social facts and social order which lay primary emphasis on systemic requirements and normative constraints, offering the counterparadigm of a fluctuating field of self-regulating transactions—an alternative which stresses the phenomenology of individual experience and the dimension of distance in social relations. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 147

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise statement of Simmel’s counterparadigm — fluctuating field of self-regulating transactions vs. systemic-normative order — a usable anchor for the essay’s thesis.
• XREF: Directly the theoretical backing the reader needs: blasé attitude and civil inattention are the phenomenology-of-individual-experience and dimension-of-distance Simmel foregrounds. — connects to: Simmel reads human experience as creative, fragmented, conflictual, and individualistic — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 86; Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603

Related

• Simmel reads human experience as creative, fragmented, conflictual, and individualistic (similarity 0.86)
• Simmel advanced technical sociology mainly as a byproduct of metaphysical concerns (similarity 0.81)
• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.79)
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.78)
• Individuality increases as the social circle expands (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant #expands (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603