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Social situations, professions, and classes might be 
classified and distinguished according to the smaller or 
larger part of the personality which remains outside of the 
social relation. There is on the one hand the Catholic 
priest, whose ecclesiastical function completely covers and 
absorbs his individual existence, and on the other hand the 
objective, impersonal function of the producer and dis- 
tributor in the modern economic system. The knowledge 
that the social activity is something completely differen- 
tiated from the rest of the individual has even in this mar- 
ginal case a positive influence on the attitude which people 
assume toward him and he toward them. An a priori of em- 
pirical social life is therefore that life is not entirely social.’ 
But the individual’s existence is not only in subdivision 
of its content partially social and partially individual, but 
also as a whole that existence may be viewed on the one 
hand as a social existence and on the other as a completely 
individual existence. The social structure is composed of 
beings which are at the same time inside and outside of it. 
Latently or openly, there exists between the individuals 
and their socializations a relation like that between two 
parties. This relationship exists, moreover, not only be- 
tween the individuals and specific forms of socialization, 
but also between the individuals and society at large. We 
know ourselves to be members and products of society, and 
we realize that our life-process is intimately interwoven 
with that of society. Yet, however completely we may 
trace its content from social antecedents and reciprocities, 
it still remains capable of consideration under the category 
of the individual life. It can still be viewed as experience 
of the individual and with reference to this experience. 
These are two categories under which the same content 
may be viewed. 
1 I'bid., pp. 35-37.