Individual-society dualism is the most enduring theme in social psychology, but it’s a biggest problem. The tendency to think on the one hand that things are produced by individual action, that individuals have clear boundaries, that they’re not linked to others, that they’re autonomous, that they’re rational decision makers who are not unduly influenced by world around them.
On the other hand, there are ways of thinking in social psychology which say:yes, but influences from social, the social sphere are so, so pressured, so heavy, so influential, that people are not really just the single individual, they are so connected to and influenced by social forces.