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In the Bondage of the (Social) Bond

Summary/Abstract: This article proposes a new understanding of the concept of social bonds, which should help to overcome the opposition between macrostructure and microsructure approach. The authors suggest that social bonds are a dynamic mechanism, involving the reproduction of social structures through activiating specifically oriented interactions of individuals. At the individual level, social bonds manifest themselves in specific motivational structures, at the microstructural level they are reproduced by means of specifically shaped environment. The authors argue that although social bonds are usually interpreted as typical of "natural" pre-modern communities, the underlie also other types of social relationships that are characterristic of contemporary society. The historical transformations of societies are not therefore related to the athophy of the social bond, but to the emergence of additional, new forms of communities, drawing upon social bonding.

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