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A contribution to the theory delineated by Georg Simmel in "Sociology of the Senses: Visual Interaction" (Park, R. E., & Burgess, W. W. [Eds], Introduction to the Science of Sociology, Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1969). Specifically, how social relations are visually constituted through gaze or glance is examined, comparing Simmel's account of the pure form of mutual glance, through which individuals are primordially united beyond the bounds of speech, & Jean-Paul Sartre's description of the look through which human beings objectify one another, again outside of spoken language. It is argued that Sartre & Simmel illustrate two fundamental sides of human sociality, which must be dialectically related to one another in order to provide an adequate phenomenological description. The account is grounded in a set of specific social phenomena that exemplify the operation of the gaze in constituting sociality. 7 References. Modified AA.