>Structure vs Agency
>To what extent do individuals control the events around them? And to what extent do structures such as the social, environmental, economic and state systems control those individuals?
Many professors have told me that this is one of the hardest and longest lasting questions in social science. Yet I think we can adress it simply if we so choose. Who has the biggest impact; you or the structures, groups and rules in which you live out your life within/by?