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... society is a uni- versal good , often self - evident to everyone ; that each person has a right to direct his or her own life , as Paul Goodman said , " without being pushed around " ; that the purpose of society is to serve people ...
... society is a uni- versal good , often self - evident to everyone ; that each person has a right to direct his or her own life , as Paul Goodman said , " without being pushed around " ; that the purpose of society is to serve people ...
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... society as a power that stands over and against the individual , whose every thought and gesture is shaped by the external forces of social interac- tion . Thus , in seizing upon the idea of " emulation " as a key to motivation , Veblen ...
... society as a power that stands over and against the individual , whose every thought and gesture is shaped by the external forces of social interac- tion . Thus , in seizing upon the idea of " emulation " as a key to motivation , Veblen ...
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... society in the world of White's poetry , it is the society of the family . Yet nature is here more than anywhere else : as an Anglo - Saxon ideal and myth , which for many others was not a myth but a reality . Wife and children to love ...
... society in the world of White's poetry , it is the society of the family . Yet nature is here more than anywhere else : as an Anglo - Saxon ideal and myth , which for many others was not a myth but a reality . Wife and children to love ...
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