Society has moved from embedded individuals in dense networks to atomized isolates.
Evidence
In earlier times, individuals were embedded in dense social networks and participated in a wide array of intermediate associations. Today’s societies are composed of increasingly atomized and isolated individuals. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 240
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Social complexity forces the shift from personal to impersonal, system-governed trust.; Disintermediation atomized society into isolated individuals — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 82; Large anonymous communities emerged as a very recent blip in human evolutionary history. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 30 (+9 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Social complexity forces the shift from personal to impersonal, system-governed trust.; Disintermediation atomized society into isolated individuals — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 82; Large anonymous communities emerged as a very recent blip in human evolutionary history. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 30 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Dense civic networks enable trust, reciprocity and collective action.
#complicates(0.78) — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone, 17 - Individuality increases as the social circle expands
#complicates(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 591 - A set of individuals can be society to varying degrees.
#complicates(0.74) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 51 - Shared identity with a crowd increases helping and decreases pushing others aside.
#complicates(0.73) — John Drury, The role of social identity processes…, 56