Ponowoczesny indywidualizm jako źródło nietrwałości więzi rodzinnych i dezintegracji rodziny
Post‑modern individualism as the source of impermanence of family ties and family disintegration

Author(s): Ewa Szwarczyńska
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: individualism; postmodernity; family ties; family; disintegration
Summary/Abstract: In the modern society a proceeding process of individualization, being one of themain symptoms of post‑modernism,is noticeable. The individuals carry out a kind ofemancipation project, which often enough includes the desire to emancipate from stablefamily ties. An individualized individual — within the framework of its self‑realization— does not merely claim for the connection with a specified society and creation ofthe selected institution. The above mentioned claims cover the right to resign from thechosen “path” at any time without any social consequences. This matter also concernsthe issue of the family life. From this perspective the permanence of the ties — whichused to distinguish the family life — is often enough identified as a kind of ties limitinga given individual. An individual focused on the self‑realization,wants to decide (andin the end decides) on the level of engagement to the family life by itself. It is possiblethanks to alternative forms of marital and family life, which are usually impermanent.This phenomenon is connected with the uprooting of the family life from tradition andtransformation of traditional (stable) family ties. This is favoured by the fact that theindividuals directed towards each other cease to be the agendas of social control whichused to contribute to the stability of family ties. Their breakdown as well as the resultantinterruptions of socialization process, lead to the disintegration of the family.

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