Eupraxsophy

Society, then, is not only something ‘out there,’ in the Durkhemian sense, but it is also ‘in here,’ part of our innermost being. Only an understanding of internalization makes sense of the incredible fact that most external controls work most of the time for most of the people in a society. Society not only controls our movements, but shapes our identity, our thought and our emotions. The structures of society become the structures of our own consciousness. Society does not stop at the surface of our skins. Society penetrates us as much as it envelopes us. Our bondage to society is not so
much established by conquest as by collusion. Sometimes, indeed, we are crushed into submission. Much more frequently we are entrapped by our own social nature. The walls of our imprisonment were there before we appeared on the scene, but they are ever rebuilt by ourselves. We are betrayed into captivity with our own cooperation.

Invitation to Sociology by Peter L. Berger (via sociolab)

It reminds me of how I always hear people (myself included) complain about society as if it were some separate entity. We conceptualize society as if it were some third party that is distinct from us. We forget that we’re often part of the problem too. 

(via daktari)

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