Are We Free Within Our Culture?

Are We Free Within Our Culture?
I believe that within limitation we are free in our culture. George Herbert Mead thought, “both our mind and our body are social products”. He believed they were the outcome of our interactions with other people rather than how we grew up. I think that no matter what we believe to be right or true at a given time, if we have peers around we will tend to go with the crowd.
Sigmund Freud believed that is was important that the social agents of an individual were important to create the “sense of right and wrong as these matters are defined by cultural values, beliefs, and norms”. Freud also believed in the he thought it was important to “counteract the antisocial impulses of the id”. I think that Freud would have believed that we are free within our culture. He thought that the parents, peers, and teachers were important in guided us in the right direction but when it comes down to it we are the only one that can make the decision. We might have society behind us trying to edge us in one direction but we truly chose which way to go.
I agree with Freud on this topic. I know that we have all been put in the situation to chose between right and wrong and have had a hard time choosing. I know that I have. You want to make the right choice but you are not really sure. You want to go with want the society says but is it always right? I think this is where we are culturally free. Even though we have the believes of our family, our friends, what we have been taught in school,...