The stranger is simultaneously outside and inside the group’s structure

Evidence

In spite of being inorganically appended to it, the stranger is yet an organic member of the group. Its uniform life includes the specific conditions of this element. Only we do not know how to designate the peculiar unity of this position other than by saying that it is composed of certain measures of nearness and distance. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9667

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the defining paradox of the stranger: organically part of the group yet inorganically appended to it.