The life of an individual cannot be adequately understood without references to the institutions within which his biography is enacted. One is a child in a certain kind of family, one is a playmate in a certain kind of child’s group, a student, a workman, a foreman, a general, a mother. Much of human life consists of playing such roles within specific institutions. To understand the biography of an individual, we must understand the significance and meaning of the roles he has played and does play; to understand the roles we must understand the institutions of which they are a part. But the view of man as a social creature enables us to go much deeper than merely the external biography as a sequence of social roles…in particular his self-image and his conscience and indeed the very growth of his mind. -C. Wright Mills-
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