Simmel frequently calls attention to the ambiguity, and flexibility, of his fundamental distinction: it is an essential tenet of his philosophy that what is form in one context can be content in another. In the perspective of sociology, cultural forms are social contents.

DEFINE: Clarifies Simmel's non-rigid form/content distinction: the two are relative and context-dependent, with cultural forms serving as social contents in the sociological frame.

DEFINE: Clarifies Simmel's flexible form/content distinction where the same element can be form in one context and content in another. Builds on: "Forms shape raw experience and evolve through time"

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 53