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Individual Autonomy And Social Structure By Dorothy Lee Analysis

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Western Society has neglected what should be the main focus: Child rearing, Language, Work and Independence. Parents and guardians, seen in roles of authority and leadership have only one thing in mind: themselves, not once thinking of the effect this will have on today’s society. With this in mind, such individuals diminish purity and capability of people and society. Today’s Western society has ruined our once very cultural roots, denying life’s simplest pleasures and existence itself. In “Individual Autonomy and Social Structure” an article written by Dorothy Lee, she comments on how other cultures continue personal autonomy and society together. It is burdensome to identify just one main cause of a society decaying, as no society can be

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