ABSTRACT
Georg Simmel taught that until sociologists isolated a specific form and content of social experience there could be no science of sociology. A sociological image of social interaction must then have both form and content, and must be described not through historical, biological, or economic features, but in the forms of men's social relations. Sociability between superiors and inferiors, or between members of widely different social classes of status groups, is always limited. The democratic world of sociability is an artificial world. The realm of art, along with that of play, offers other examples of what is meant by a form of sociation. If mind is social, it must arise in and through some kind of expression which is determined by social elements. Expression as communication cannot be a process which somehow passes through one individual to another, for in such passage the individual becomes meaningless.
