Social relationships are shaped by a twofold dualism

Evidence

This same dualism also causes sociological relationships to be determined in a twofold manner. Concord, harmony, co- efficacy, which are unquestionably held to be socializing forces, must nevertheless be interspersed with distance, competition, repulsion, in order to yield the actual configuration of society. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7696

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Two primitive attitudes structure all my relations with the Other.