Social acceleration erodes the institutions that once stabilized chosen identities.

Evidence

This is why Rosa refers to this form of identity as an “a posteriori stable identity.” A definite set of classical modern institutions helped to secure and protect these time-structural preconditions, including bourgeois marriage and the nuclear family, the industrial work(time) regime with its strict separation of factory or office from home and work time from free time, and the legal-political framework of the welfare or “social security” state. If social changes are now occurring faster than the time horizons of these arrangements permit, it is no coincidence that these patterns of identity are eroding before our eyes and giving way to highly improvisational and reactive forms of “situational” identity and politics. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 32

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: The same acceleration that enabled modern autonomy now undermines it. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 23; Collective identities erode rather than vanish, losing their former social and explanatory stability.; Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective identities erode rather than vanish, losing their former social and explanatory stability. #expands (0.85)
• Social acceleration itself erodes the preconditions for democratic self-steering #expands (0.85) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 442
• Social acceleration concerns frequency of change, not speed over distance #expands (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 226
• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. #complicates (0.75)
• Stable background institutions were the precondition for modern acceleration #qualifies (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 286