 At this point of our analysis, it becomes apparent that the term “social world”, or society, for Ortega, connotes merely the category which he utilized to describe the phenomenological interaction between individual “I’s” both as unique individuals and as social individuals. In other words, the social world entails the realm in which the interactive process of the “I” and its “circumstances” becomes extended to the inclusion of other “I’s”. Departing from this perspective, Ortega became concerned with the fundamental patterns of human interaction that underlie the larger context of social reality. The reduction of the whole of what constitutes social reality into its component elements discloses the phenomenological grounding of Ortega’s analysis of human society. Hence, the social relation of individuals identifies the distinctive unity which is defined by the reciprocal interaction of its unique individual components. As he explains: