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From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russell Herman)
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Subject: society != aggregate
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 20:53:06 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 20:53:06 1984
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I'm pretty bewildered by those who maintain that "society is an aggregate
of individuals". When someone says "aggregate" to me, my free association
is "concrete". You know - sand, gravel, stuck together with cement - little
pieces of inert matter rigidly locked in place. That's not a terribly good
analogue for society. At minimum, I'd call society a "system". If I'm really
in a good mood, I might even call it an "organism". But "aggregate"?
Sorry, doesn't fit, any more than my body is an aggregate of organs.
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