Social orders integrate at the level of attributed motives

Evidence

I designate as the content—the materials, so to speak—of sociation everything that is present in individuals (the immediately concrete loci of all historical reality)—drive, interest, purpose, inclination, psychic state, movement—everything that is present in them in such a way as to engender or mediate effects upon others or to receive such effects. In themselves, these materials which fill life, these motivations which propel it, are not social. Strictly speaking, neither hunger nor love, work nor religiosity, technology nor the functions and results of intelligence, are social. They are factors in sociation only when they transform the mere aggregation of isolated individuals into specific forms of being with and for one another, forms that are subsumed under the general concept of interaction. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194; Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange; Authority, reputation, and leadership are generalized motives for accepting influence (+4 more)

Related

• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.88)
• Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure (similarity 0.81)
• Mafiosi recognize each other through shared habits, not organization (similarity 0.81)
• Social unity is felt through concrete relations rather than abstract awareness (similarity 0.81)
• Social outcomes depend on joint causation, making individualist rule-following wrong for policy (similarity 0.81)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.80)
• Ethical value-schemes map fortuitously onto objective social forms (similarity 0.80)
• The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons (similarity 0.80)
• Thinking is a sociable collective activity that transforms thinker and interlocutors (similarity 0.80)
• Adornment simultaneously expresses egoism and altruism within social exchange (similarity 0.79)
• Social generalization, though distorting, is what makes social relations possible (similarity 0.78)
• Society presupposes a harmony between its structure and individual inner callings (similarity 0.78)
• Sociology treats psychological processes only as carriers of social forms (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #corroborates (0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #corroborates (0.60)
• Authority, reputation, and leadership are generalized motives for accepting influence #exemplifies (0.60)
• Social unity is felt through concrete relations rather than abstract awareness #contradicts (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 169