According to Georg Simmel, society is the product of interactions between individuals (conceived as social actors). Within this perspective, the concept of society also changes, because, in the current conception, a society is a unit that is limited to a certain territory or location. But, for Simmel, a society takes shape from the moment when social actors create interdependent relationships or establish reciprocal social contacts and interactions. In this way, the boundaries and limits of a society are diffuse and extremely transitory. At this point, it is possible to identify some approximation or agreement of Simmel with the sociological approaches of Norbert Elias.
Children change the way parents see themselves, they stop being husband and wife and become parents, and this totally changes the way they start to relate.
