Balancing the Notion of Freedom

Abstract

In this paper, I intend to reconsider Yankelovich’s idea about lurch-and-learn process in the case of black people and women, exploring their experience in the contemporary American society, and try to answer these questions. In doing so, I will offer a historical background of the development of American Individualism among African-Americans and women in the twentieth century and the recent decade with a framework of the barriers to changes in the society.