34 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL 
The concept of society as applied in the scientific study 
of society is a formal concept. It stands for something 
quantitative and essentially dynamic. Society is not some- 
thing concrete, but something functional. There can be 
more or less society. It is not a thing, but a process, or 
rather a number of interacting processes; and, on account 
of this fundamental characteristic, it is better to speak, 
not of society, but of socialization.