When people have a sense of the difference between their actual self and their social ideal self, an individual will experience feelings of shame and unworthiness.

Achieving social ideal, or at least, a radical change for the better economic structure of society had to make, according to his views, the task of conscious social activity.

He favored the public sector in the growing areas of health, education and administration, which reflected a social ideal but also offered the economies of scale.

From this basis, naturalists could then develop their own social ideals based on their scientific works.

By the end of the eighteenth century, a major shift in fashion was taking place that extended beyond changes in mere style to changes in philosophical and social ideals.