Sociability is free from the gravity of fixed content

Evidence

In sociability, this freedom to form relations and this adequacy of their expression are relieved of any concrete contentual determinants. The ways in which groups form and split up and in which conversations, called forth by mere impulse and occasion, begin, deepen, loosen, and terminate at a social gathering give a miniature picture of the societal ideal that might be called the freedom to be tied down. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2304

This freedom from all gravity of immutable contents and permanent realities gives coquetry the character of suspension, si have treated coquetry extensively in my book, Philosophische Kultur Sociability as the Autonomous Form of Sociation 51 distance, ideality, that has led one to speak, with a certain right, of its “art,” not only of its “artifices.” — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2220

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines sociability as play-form of social interaction stripped of real content.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Simmel triad analysis: sociable forms as the dyadic/pure relation the guardian then audits. — connects to: Casual sociability perpetuates the injustice it seems to soften
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2304; Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2220