The Components of a Society

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government”. Here Milton Friedman, American economist and a famous writer share his views about the society or government who is responsible for the protection of the people. Most of the people in this world are familiar with the word society. The term society describes a group of people as the members of certain communities for several events. We live in a society and without society we cannot develop our own individual behavior. In other words an ideal society can also be known as a perfect society which can provide basic needs to the people living within their respected communities. Different types of societies prevail in this world today. Some are religious, cultural, charitable, professional as well as economic. But there are advantages and disadvantages to these societies. For instance, being in a society will increase teamwork, cooperation, open to anyone, regardless of race, sex, religion and it is easy to form. On the other hand, it will limit your ability of working individually, problems arise when some families in the community fail to contribute money and the lack of secrecy since almost every matter is discussed openly in meetings. Authors such as Milton Friedman and Jane Jacobs describes about societies in detail and how it should be through their famous books, free to choose and the death and life of great American cities. Friedman begins his book by creating a boundary line between two organizations who are opposed to each other. By the concept of ‘Society’, he basically talks about the government and the people who live according to the rules made by that government. He continues b...

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... carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks- the pedestrian parts of the streets- serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians” (The uses of sidewalks: Safety, pg 29). The author is trying to say that besides walking and carrying vehicles, the sidewalks play a major role in protecting our lives. Certain factors that contribute to the safety are there should be a line that will be able to separate private and public, people should use it continuously. These people also misuse the sidewalks. For instance, it is always visible people dumping their small trashes on the sidewalk. The people will not understand the value of sidewalk until they lose it. They forget the part that these sidewalks serve as a means of communication. Every day, we see people socializing on sidewalks. Jacobs introduces a neighborhood where the citizens leave their keys with the shopkeepers.