Man In Society And Society In Man

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Everywhere and all the time we are members of groups. The isolated individual does not exist. The language we speak, the clothes we wear, the food that sustains us, the games we play, the goals we seek, and the ideals we cherish are all derived from our culture. Culture is a societal force. Society surrounds us in our infancy arid follows us to our resting place. We depend upon society and its processes not only for our livelihood but for our very lives. “Society not only controls our movements, but shapes our identity, our thought and our emotions. The structures of society become the structures of our own consciousness.”— Peter L. Berger. Society does not stop at, the surface of our skins. Society penetrates us as much as it environs us. Our bondage to society is not simple but complex. Sometimes, indeed, we are crushed into submission. Much more frequently we are entrapped by our own social nature. As Peter L. Berger says, “The walls of our imprisonment were there before we appeared on the scene, but they arc ever rebuilt by ourselves. We are betrayed into captivity with our own co-operation.” -

As Durkheim says society confronts us as an objective facility. It is there something that cannot be denied and that must be reckoned with. Society is external to ourselves. It encompasses our entire life. We are in society, located in specific sectors of the social system. Our wishes are not taken into consideration in this matter of social location. The institutions of society pattern our actions and even shape our expectations. We are located in society not only in space but also in time. Our society is an historical entity that extends beyond the temporary life of any individual. “It was there before we were born and it will be there after we are dead. Our lives are but episodes in its majestic march through time. In sum, society is the walls of our imprisonment in history”.

— Peter L. Berger –

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