Belief that existing arrangements are natural blocks real social change.

Evidence

Separation of the Jews had lost its naturalness, suggested in the past by the territorial segregation and reinforced by profuse and obtrusive warning signs. It seemed instead hopelessly artificial and brittle. What used to be an axiom, a tacitly accepted assumption, became now a truth one had to demonstrate and prove; and ‘essence of things’ hidden behind phenomena that apparently contradicted it. New naturalness now had to be laboriously constructed and grounded in an authority different from that of the evidence of sensual impressions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 172 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

A basic dualism … pervades the fundamental form of all sociation. The dualism consists in the fact that a relation, which is a fluctuating, constantly developing life-process, nevertheless receives a relatively stable external form. The sociological forms of reciprocal behavior, of unification, of presentation toward the outside, cannot follow, with any precise adaptation, the changes of their inside, that is, of the processes that occur in the individual in regard to the other. These two layers, relation and form, have different tempi of development; or it often is the nature of the external form not to develop properly at all. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern social boundaries must be re-naturalized through demonstrated truth rather than habit — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 172; Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778; Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks (+1 more)

Related

• Modern social boundaries must be re-naturalized through demonstrated truth rather than habit (similarity 0.85)
• Functional differentiation makes social structures contingent and permanently revisable (similarity 0.82)
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life (similarity 0.81)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (similarity 0.79)
• Modern boundaries must be rebuilt on foundations immune to education and self-transformation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern social boundaries must be re-naturalized through demonstrated truth rather than habit #responds-to (0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 172
• Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778
• Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks #qualifies (0.75)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #expands (0.72)