Individual Rights and Freedoms For sociologists like Zygmunt Baumann, modern society exhibits an uneasy tension between individual rights on the one hand, and individual freedoms on the other hand. The problems is this: How can individuals be perfectly free while belonging to a society which by definition requires some kind of functional interdependence? What if, for example, your neighbors’ freedom to have a party interferes with your right to sleep at night? Due to potential conflicts such as these we have laws. Although laws do not necessarily solve the problem because, as suggested by Scott Turow and others, justice systems often favor high status groups at the expense of lower status groups. » Psychosis
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