SOCB43H3 Lecture : SImmel
Document Summary
Not always bad: you have a group, it is somehow integrated together. Anything that separates us, is negative (lose social connection; weakening this is conflict); inherently disassociating. You are connected to the people you are in conflict way. If you fight with someone, even though you may not like them, you care about what they think/say/do; certain way of being associated with others in a conflictual way. Sports teams allows for it because you compete for higher positions by playing their best which in turns allows for the team to do well. You spend time thinking about what competitors are doing. A marriage is not less of a marriage with conflict and the person you are married to is the person you fight with the most and you become closer to them. Conflict is different between friends who are now enemies and different between people who were enemies and now friends.
