The group, not the person, is low and needs guidance

Evidence

This incommensurability between the quantity of qualifications for superordination and the quantity of their possible applications, can perhaps be explained in terms of the difference between the character of man as a group member and as an individual. The group as such is low and in need of guidance. It develops qualities which all members have in common. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 7415

Categorization

• DEFINE: Simmel’s definitional move: the surplus never aligns because group traits (common, low) and individual traits (distinctive, elevated) belong to different orders.