ABSTRACT
The task of the last lecture was to convince you that even in unplanned societies a conditioning of behaviour is going on perpetually. Individualization on different levels takes place in different societies and under different social conditions. Not only can external traits be induced or modified by adequately changed surroundings, not only is there a well-defined mechanism which furthers or prevents the growth of spontaneity and favours or suppresses the rise of an individual viewpoint, but even such complex phenomena as man's self-evaluation and the estimation of his own life history as something unique can be correlated with definite social situations. Thus on the level of self-awareness and of self-regarding attitudes too there is external social conditioning, and social authorities therefore are able to foster or hinder their formation.
