ABSTRACT
The large corporate behaviour we have discussed is nevertheless the behaviour of individuals. It is the world with which each person is severally presented, the world from which he must make his individual life. In reality, society and the individual are not antagonists. His culture provides the raw material of which the individual makes his life. The quarrel in anthropological theory between the importance of the culture pattern and of the individual is only a small ripple from this fundamental conception of the nature of society. If it is meagre, the individual suffers; if it is rich, the individual has the chance to rise to his opportunity. The fact that the Dobuan could not function in his culture was not a consequence of the particular responses that were congenial to him, but of the chasm between them and the cultural pattern. The man in the street still thinks in terms of a necessary antagonism between society and the individual.
