Society presupposes a harmony between its structure and individual inner callings

Evidence

For such a thing as vocation to be possible, there must exist that harmony, whatever its origin, between the structure and development of society, and individual qualities and impulses. It is this general premise that constitutes the ultimate basis of the idea that for every personality there exist a position and a function in society to which he is called and which he must seek and find. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 191

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the concept of vocation through its dual premise: anonymous social place matched to personal inner calling.
• XREF: This is the same Simmel urban reading—vocation as the harmonic integration of individual subjectivity into social anonymity, structurally parallel to how the blasé individual navigates the anonymous metropolis. — connects to: The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 354; Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 608; Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778 (+19 more)

Related

• The individual’s inner mental relations mirror social relations among persons (similarity 0.85)
• Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. (similarity 0.84)
• The virtue of moderation enforces the social division of man into functions (similarity 0.83)
• Societies require a mix of discord and harmony to take determinate shape (similarity 0.81)
• Micro-level symbolic encounters carry relative autonomy from the social structure (similarity 0.81)
• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction (similarity 0.81)
• Humanity functions as an organizing idea, not a concrete entity (similarity 0.81)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.80)
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life (similarity 0.80)
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract (similarity 0.79)
• A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees. (similarity 0.79)
• Any social group can act as individual or aggregate depending on its relational frame. (similarity 0.78)
• Individual and society are methodological standpoints, not separable entities (similarity 0.78)
• Social orders integrate at the level of attributed motives (similarity 0.78)
• Human sociality is one possibility among several, not the only lens on experience (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Individual motives become social only through forms of mutual interaction #expands (0.65) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 194
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #complicates (0.60)
• Human life must be understood under both individual and social attributes at once #corroborates (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 213
• Communitarian personhood defines identity through community rather than the Cartesian I #expands (0.40) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 434
• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types #corroborates (0.35) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284