Individual Autonomy and Social Structure

Personal autonomy and social structure: Dorothy Lee For many years, anthropologist Dorothy Lee is anxious to learn about the diversity of other cultures in order to overcome the conflict in Western society. She is tackling important social issues as an attempt to calm social structure and personal autonomy. Dorothy Lee has a deep understanding of parenting in the Indian culture of the Navajo tribe and encourages respect for purely personal living; she thinks that solution of the difference between structure and freedom is indispensable It is.

In "Individual Autonomy and Social Structure", Dorothy Lee discusses how difficult it is to achieve human dignity in the details of everyday life in today's society. (5 pages, Lee) However, Li discussed how to propose solutions for this society by analyzing different cultures and how they deal with similar situations. Lee said the important social problem was conflict between individual autonomy and social structure. Personal autonomy is the ability to judge the behavior and course of the person. However, in the American social structure described by Lee, the American society thinks that the meaning of individual autonomy may lead to lawlessness and chaos.

Despite the idea of ​​improving autonomy, there are few cultures to pursue personal autonomy. On the contrary, many people argue that personal autonomy is a myth and the use of choice is so. Modern criticism of individual autonomy is based on the concept of reducing subjectivity. From this perspective, people's helpless definition, vulnerability and lack of agents. Given this pessimistic view, abandoning the pursuit of personal autonomy rather than seeking states to solve existing problems is completely reasonable.