ABSTRACT
Interaction between human beings is conceived of and experienced as space-filling. If individuals live within certain spatial boundaries and are isolated from one another, the space between them is empty space. An investigation of the spatial aspect of sociological forms will therefore throw light on the character of the processes of socialization. A group is similarly characterized as an internal unity if its spatial extension is conceived of as bordered by a boundary line. On the other hand, the functional unity resulting from the reciprocities between the elements finds its spatial expression in that surrounding frame. The relationships of a purely factual and impersonal character and the relationships of a purely emotional character apparently overcome the disadvantages of spatial separateness in the most successful manner. A spatial configuration which is an expression of sociological relationships is the dominion of a state over its territory.
