Edward J. Lawler
Auteur van Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World
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- Lawler, Edward J.
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Ithaca, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- University of Wisconsin
California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Los Angeles - Beroepen
- Professor of Sociology
Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Cooley-Mead Award for career achievement, American Sociological Association
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On the micro level, as the world becomes more depersonalized, person-to-person relationships tend to become shallower, looser, less often extending beyond the merely transactional. The result is emotional isolation. “People today are leading more individualized and privatized lives.” Can new social networks such as the Internet replace the person-to-person relationships of the past? The authors believe they have potential to do so. “The loss-of-community themes of today are anchored … in illusion and myth.”
This book extends from the micro to the macro, to social units of any size, from the smallest groups to the largest nation-states. It is about person-to-group commitments, how they can be created and sustained by giving persons shared tasks and responsibilities that engender in them feelings of solidarity with the group; and it is about person-to-person ties at the micro level. It offers a theory of social commitments that addresses the micro foundations of person-to-group ties, and it suggests practical applications of that theory.
A scholarly work of interest to academics, this is a challenging read because it deals with abstract topics: social inequalities, globalism, nationalism, etc. It is recommended to readers interested in those topics. It assumes some familiarity with sociology and psychology. Indexed and lavishly sourced.… (meer)