Modern kinship no longer structures daily life for most people
Evidence
A parallel conclusion must be reached about kinship, for reasons already adduced. The demonstration that kin ties of certain kinds remain strong in some contexts in modern societies hardly means that kinship plays the role it once did in structuring day-to-day life for the majority. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 279
Categorization
- XREF: Stevens’s relationship to his father is precisely this modern kinship knot — the only kin tie operating in his world is thoroughly subordinated to his professional role, consistent with kinship losing its structuring role. — connects to: Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time; Behavior is shaped by abandoned family and cultural roots — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 573; Ubuntu personhood defines the self only through communal relation — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4252 (+7 more)
Related
- Kinship provides reliable trust bonds regardless of personal sympathy. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Individualization loosens ties with the near to enable ties with the distant
#expands(0.70) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 603 - Traditional social structures and orders can disintegrate over time
#corroborates(0.60) - Behavior is shaped by abandoned family and cultural roots
#contradicts(0.55) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 573 - Social relations crystallize into fixed external forms that cannot keep pace with inner life
#corroborates(0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 778 - Ubuntu personhood defines the self only through communal relation
#contradicts(0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 4252