The philosophical assertion that man is a social being has found a place in almost all the humanities. Man, as a person, is simply not conceivable without society. He can live a normal life only using the labor and experience of other people.
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A person is not born a personality, he becomes it only with time. There are no strict time frames. A person is recognized as a person when he begins to make decisions independently and bears full responsibility for them. It doesn’t matter how old he is: 14 or 28. A person is, first of all, a free, autonomous and independent subject of life.
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A person becomes such only by living in society. Interaction with other people allows him to develop the opportunities that were inherent in his nature. Outside of society, most of these opportunities simply cannot develop, that is, a person cannot become a person, living in isolation.
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So-called socialization takes place, that is, the assimilation of social experience, the acquisition of skills and qualities that allow you to fully and painlessly interact with other people. This is a process that begins with the birth of a person and lasts a lifetime. The basis of socialization is the activity and communication of the individual in various social groups (family, work collective, school, informal groups).
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This process allows a person to immerse themselves in the cultural environment, which is expressed primarily through the development of the language, traditions and customs of this society. Then he gains various valuable knowledge, experience and behavioral programs that he can already transfer on his own. Thus, there is a constant spread of culture through space and time.
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Outside society, people are just animals. There is a large amount of evidence of this fact. Mowgli children who were forced to grow in the wild, after returning to society, could not take root. They did not even manage to learn how to pronounce the simplest words, not to mention subsequent socialization.
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The expression "man is a social being" says, first of all, that a person always interacts with other people and cannot exist without them. Wherever he is, whatever needs he needs, he needs the help of other people.
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Few people are able to live completely autonomously, independently growing food and heating the house. But even those few received knowledge from other people. They simply adopted their experience and used it to satisfy their needs.
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Thus, we can safely say that a person is inconceivable without society. He is simultaneously both a subject and an object of influence of social influences.
