Influence of Society on Individual Personality
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Georg Simmel believed that individuals were shaped by their position and role in society. In his epochal work "The Stranger," Simmel charts out the social interactions that define the personality of the title character. Simmel believed that a person's standing in society and his interactions with others in that society assigned to him a social archetype. A person's character, then, is but a part of the greater whole that is society. This relationship can be seen in Simmel's depiction of the stranger. The stranger is different from the rest of society because he is from elsewhere and was not raised within the social group he finds himself in now. He is nevertheless a part of the social group, and his identity is wrapped up in this sense of belonging and not belonging, of being within and without the social group. The Stranger "is fixed within a particular spatial group . . . but his position . . . is determined . . . by the fact that he does no belong to it from the beginning." Indeed, the very fact that he has the potential to leave again and return to his own society imbues the stranger with a certain standing in the group. He sees it with fresh eyes,
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