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Thanks to globalization people have more choice in the environments they live in and change environments with much more ease than in the past. While talking abo

by cen4 2y ago

Thanks to globalization people have more choice in the environments they live in and change environments with much more ease than in the past. While talking about relationships the focus naturally goes to individuals, it should be recognized that growth in relationships on top of ever changing environments gets much more tricky. Transport, Communication, Finance, Info networks have all changed drastically from the past. And the sociologists have been pointing that out for a long time now. Check out Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity. Beck's Normal Chaos of Love Works of Judith Stacey Its a complex ever changing world out there. Coevolution requires a bit of stablity in the environments. Focus should not just be on what individuals are doing for each other but on how they shape the environment around them in ways that makes such things more possible.

squigz 2y ago
I think globalization is on average a good thing (and probably the only way we survive long-term, but that's another discussion) - but indeed, we have lost some things in the transition, namely stable communities. For a long time, these were provided by our family, our local community, a church, etc. Now, we have much more freedom in our choices of communities (i.e., one might leave an abusive family) which is generally a good thing, but without replacing those communities, it's difficult to grow as a person. Not to mention the myriad other social problems that arise from this - a lack of community to care for the elderly, generations who don't know how to develop real relationships, and the loneliness that comes from that, etc...