Throughout the course of time, society has had its own way of influencing all ages may it be for the good or bad - festering our minds with lies and aggression or baring out the naked truth. In most societies, the tendencies of its leaders to raise to a certain community to be in uniform with each other are quite apparent and a lot in number. Individuals while growing up are formed to have the same beliefs and etc in the community hence far from being capable of independent thought. In simpler context, it's as if society trains us to be soldiers no different from anyone else and depend entirely on the leaders.
It would be a complete and utter understatement to say that society is just a mere factor in people's thinking. I personally believe that society is not merely a factor but is of great value and vitality on the influence of people's thinking. Cooley (1902) and Mead (1934) stated that self-formation is a reflective process, with the key to self-development being interactions with others. This implies that the key to knowing who we truly are lies in those around us - in society. In this case, what happens is we become part of a looking a glass society wherein images of who people , we look at ourselves through other people's eyes in developing ourselves. We seek approval and confirmation for our specific roles. In a typical society, who we are is rooted from being around others. A concrete example of this would be how interaction with people give us recognition of self, from a recognition of what is to be human.
From my personal experiences and my own judgments, I can say that society is forever evolving and in each society, may it be family, school, group of friends, etc, there are idiosyncrasies unique to that society. Our sense of individuality is highly influenced from living in a social world wherein we share time and experiences with others. As social beings created by God, we cannot separate society from ourselves as ourselves cannot be separated from society because of our intrinsic need to be around others.
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