1999 年 1999 巻 12 号 p. 211-222
Simmel's Soziologie deals with some types of ‘excluded’ person such as the stranger, the enemy, and the poor. Although Simmel himself didn't state explicitly what ‘exclusion’ means, it seems to be an important concept in his formal sociology. As a result of examining the types of excluded persons, especially the stranger, in the contexts of ‘a priori conditions of society’ and ‘triad’, we are to define ‘exclusion’ as a form of sociation (Vergesellschaftung). This form of sociation is a synthesis of combination with someone and separation of another. It forms a ‘double group’ which consists of a closer circle without ‘excluded’ persons and a larger circle containing them.