Theories of Society

[Dan Goodman]

1) Society is an organic whole, with all its parts working together.
At the extreme, there are no exceptions. For example, people commit
crimes because the system needs criminals; otherwise there would be no
prisons, no law enforcement jobs, etc.

2) Society is made up of groups in conflict. It may be class against
class (as in Marxism and some forms of conservatism); ethnic group or
castes fighting it out; or family against family.

3) Society is continually being made and remade by people's reactions
to what they think other people's words and actions mean.

4) There are no societies; there are only individuals. Nothing has
ever been accomplished by any group, every achievement is due to an
individual.

--
Dan Goodman
"I have always depended on the kindness of stranglers."
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Expire
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