Social types can embody an all-dominating orientation to the world
Evidence
On the other hand, Simmel was fond of portraying certain human types in terms of the general category of orientation to the world they embodied. Just as all the contents of the world can be defined in terms of the category of science, or religion, or love, so one can speak of the man of science, the religious man, or the erotic man—individuals whose experience is dominated by one of the forms of orientation. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 157
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Functional differentiation frees individuals from role-dictated behavior — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 708; Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 284; Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174 (+7 more)
Related
- Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. (similarity 0.89)
- Each person is a fragment even of their own singular type (similarity 0.86)
- Clique-dominated society demands self-representation as a type rather than as an individual. (similarity 0.85)
- Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type (similarity 0.85)
- Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.82)
- Functional differentiation frees individuals from role-dictated behavior (similarity 0.81)
- Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types (similarity 0.81)
- Everyone is composed of multiple social identities that position them differently (similarity 0.80)
- Individual diversity can be conceived as a division of labor among unique beings (similarity 0.80)
- Societies require a mix of discord and harmony to take determinate shape (similarity 0.80)
- Every person fuses social inheritance with free individual autonomy (similarity 0.80)
- Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.80)
- Individuality and universal equality historically arise as twin reactions to inequality (similarity 0.79)
- Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.79)
- Simmel reads human experience as creative, fragmented, conflictual, and individualistic (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types
#corroborates(0.60) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284 - Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type
#corroborates(0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174