2006-12-04 09:41:15 · 10 answers · asked by s_stephens_2005 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Now a days....the society changes you....you can't change society....Sometimes when society's demands are high some teenagers or grown ups even..kill themself....I hope I didn't gave you any ideeas....But if society can't accept you find other peoples that are like you think like you and act like you .
2006-12-04 09:50:05 · answer #1 · answered by alin_alinta_inimi 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, society cannot be more important. For a society to exist at all, there must be individuality! A paradigm of the chicken vs. the egg!
Not to mention, an individual may still exist without a society.
2006-12-04 09:53:42 · answer #2 · answered by fergy_1967 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes often times society is much more important than the individual.
2006-12-04 11:53:33 · answer #3 · answered by Loli M 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you are asking if an individuals right to act as he pleases should take a back seat to society then yes. If all individuals acted independent from society, then would we not have chaos.
In some native cultures you lived for the tribe, not for yourself. Today that would go over like a lead balloon.
2006-12-04 10:41:16 · answer #4 · answered by FC 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It depends on how the society is organized. In Japan,society is more important but in USA the individual is more important. Each way with advantages and disadvantages.
2006-12-08 05:49:34 · answer #5 · answered by valentin79ro 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, in cases where the society is truly and directly at serious and provable risk, which is still different depending on who you ask. Society is more resilient, I think, than most others think. Society can exist and function without AN individual, but it needs most of them. An individual cannot exist and function without society, at least not in the terms of sociology and psychology. Hermits are hermits.
2006-12-04 09:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by TwilightWalker97 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
How could that be? Your question is analogous to asking, " is the body more important than the heart "? Societies are made up of individuals. They are not sui generis ( a thing on to itself ), despite what your sociology teacher is trying to inculcate in you.
2006-12-04 10:41:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, the individual is more important, but he must reciprocate by adhering to society's values and mores.
2006-12-04 14:30:46 · answer #8 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Only to Marxist and Socialists!
USA and Britain have a lot of individual freedom that foreigners coming here cherish and then there are the OTHER kind of foreigners coming here...
2006-12-04 10:06:03 · answer #9 · answered by acct10132002 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes because society is the sum of all individuals.without it we wood soon be extinct. it is the same with ants and bee's If they cant work together they parish.
2006-12-04 10:00:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋