The cash economy correlates social expansion with individual differentiation

Evidence

The preeminent historical instance of the correlation between social expansion and the individuation of life contents and forms is provided by the emergence of the cash economy. The primitive economy engenders small, relatively insular economic circles; the difficulty of transportation alone restricts their perimeters, and it accordingly prevents the technology of the primitive economy from arriving at a significant degree of the differentiation and individualization of activities. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 663

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Money economy reduces persons to quantitative exchange value — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 750; Individuality increases as the social circle expands — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 591; Richer individuals need wider choice circles to satisfy their specific needs — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 646 (+13 more)

Related

• Money expands economic circles and individualizes participants simultaneously (similarity 0.92)
• Money economy reduces persons to quantitative exchange value (similarity 0.87)
• The money economy makes social action approach pure objectivity (similarity 0.85)
• Richer individuals need wider choice circles to satisfy their specific needs (similarity 0.83)
• Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object (similarity 0.82)
• Postwar affluence shifted class structures from embedded tiers to consumption-based forms (similarity 0.82)
• Individuality increases as the social circle expands (similarity 0.81)
• Simmel saw money as both cause and expression of social acceleration. (similarity 0.81)
• Individuality paradoxically emerges through the exchange process that levels it. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types #expands (0.70) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284
• The money economy makes social action approach pure objectivity #complicates (0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 180
• Individuality and universal equality historically arise as twin reactions to inequality #corroborates (0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 687
• Economic value emerges through the distance exchange creates between self and object #complicates (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 250
• Each person holds a constant ratio of individual to social factors #expands (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 608
• Fashion substitutes for class and profession as a source of individual differentiation. #exemplifies (0.40) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 732