The concept of cultural and traditional archetype

Abstract

A humanistic approach of the phenomenon of social change and of the technologic impact on it, presupposes a clear cut delineation of the individual's role in society by a thorough canvassing of the individuals’ interrelations. An individual cannot be represented as isolated but as creating and entering a system of relations that are determined by certain productive forces which generate a structure that is proper for each social system on each stage of its social development. Perception and analysis of each individual according to such coordinates is helpful to our analysis in that change perception should start from the individual towards society, since it is the individual that cumulates all prerogatives through which social development is galvanized. Our conclusions are based on a study performed from the perspective of an interdisciplinary approach of the social. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.