 The concept of the multitude is quantitative and visual. If we translate the concept into sociological terminology without changing its character, then we find the idea of social mass. Society is always a dynamic unity of two component factors: minorities and masses. The minorities are individuals or groups of individuals who are specially qualified. The mass is an aggregate of persons not especially qualified. By masses, then, it is not to be understood, solely nor principally, “the working masses”. The mass is “the average man”. In this manner, what was mere quantity—the multitude—is converted into a qualitative determination: it becomes the common social quality, man as undifferentiated from other men, but as repeating in himself a generic type…To form a minority, whatever it may be, it is necessary beforehand that each member separate himself from the multitude for special, relatively individual reasons…. This coming together of the minority precisely in order to separate themselves from the majority is always introduced into the formation of every minority. (Obras, IV: 145–46)