By Mihai Nadin
ISBN-10: 3931828387
ISBN-13: 9783931828387
The wonderful yet unsettling truth of swifter cycles of switch, breakdown of conventional values and associations, and plenty of different signs of technological innovation-what makes those valuable is the topic of this thought-provoking booklet. the entire stable intentions of educators, students, politicians, and policymakers will fail in the event that they don't realize why literacy as a dominant framework of human job isn't any longer enough. the present dynamics of human job is with no precedent. it isn't the results of expertise, yet of deeper forces of switch. the reply to the failure of many doubtless everlasting institutions-government, relatives, education-is now not development within the conventional feel, yet a essentially new standpoint. The electronic paradigm underlying the recent civilization offers a foundation for this point of view. however it should be misapplied until understood in the broader framework of the using forces in the back of human task.
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As we entertain the prospect that nations, as definable political entities, might disappear, we automatically wonder whether the family, as a definable social entity, will survive-and if yes, in what form. What breaks down when family fails? The downfall of nations and empires has been attributed to the breakdown of the family. The weakening of family has been cited as a cause of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Anti-abortionists and other traditionalists in the United States blame the breakdown in traditional family values for many of the social ills of our day.
Rules established over time in some countries are indicative of peculiar pragmatic requirements: polygamy in societies where marriage is the only form of protection and 35 fulfillment for women; polyandry in societies with a high man to woman ratio; uxorilocation (the new couple resides in the wife’s home territory), and virilocation (the new couple resides in the husband’s home territory). The scale at which family self-constitution takes place affects its effectiveness. When this scale reaches a certain threshold or critical size, structural changes take place.
With the two-directional communication, supported by digital networks, human interaction takes on a new dimension. Choices increase. So do risks. Once the substance of one’s experience is substituted by mediations, even the rationale for communication changes, never mind the form. Families separated by virtue of assignments (war, business) at remote locations, or in pursuit of various interests (sport, entertainment, tourism), exchange videotapes instead of writing to each other, or focus on telephone conversations meant to signal a point of reference, but not a shared universe of existence and concerns.
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