ABSTRACT
The argument presented in this paper rests on the premise that individuals are so inextricably interwoven in a fabric of social relations within which their lives are lived that a representation of the ‘individual’ divorced from the ‘social’ is theoretically inadequate. There is no pure ‘individuality’ which can be apprehended independently of social relations. The complex interrelations of the individual and
the social mean that, in effect, an individual is inconceivable as a viable entity without a sustaining network of social relations. It is as useless to attempt to separate these two terms as it is to attempt to isolate environmental and hereditary infl uences on the expression of intelligence (Furth, 1973).
