Individuation of personality, on the one hand, and the influences, interests, and relationships that attach the personality to its social circle, on the other hand, show a pattern of interdependent development that appears in the most diverse historical and institutional setting as a typical form. Individuality in being and action generally increases to the degree that the social circle encompassing the individual expands.

XREF: Connects to Simmel's broader sociology of group expansion and the shift from small to large social circles driving individual differentiation.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 591