The Influence of Modernity on Social Relationships: Restructuration and Impact

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[...] (Alone for all) Modernity = A consecration of solitude that redefines human sociability? Within the autobiographical work Bonjour Tristesse (1954), The writer François Sagan evokes a summer spent alongside her father. Throughout the narrative, the solitude that weighs on her does not allow her to consider her relationship with the people around her, and particularly her father, in a healthy way. This work has known a real success despite the youth of the writer, which can be explained by the rise of individualism within Western societies following the industrial revolutions of the 19th century. [...]

[...] The interest of the rise of individualism in society The rise of individualism is not necessarily synonymous with social malaise and can bring innovative responses to structural problems. In fact, autonomy and consideration of gender equality in public debate have been ensured thanks to society's entry into modernity. This is particularly noticeable in the essay A room of one's own (1929) on the occasion of which the feminist philosopher and writer Virginia Woolf accounts for the importance for a woman to gain in freedom. [...]

[...] Influence of Modernity within Social Relationships A. From a passage of an agricultural society to an industrial society Within the work The Great Transformation (1944), the Hungarian economist Karl Polanyi describes the mechanisms that have disrupted Western societies by establishing new economic structures there. These new structures, like the trivialization of businesses, integrate new ways of working: from a society in which the labor force residing in the cultivation of the land to a society that industrializes and then tertiarise with the introduction of service activities. [...]

[...] Nuance of this consecration However, a nuance must be added. If solitude can allow progress on certain subjects such as feminism, it is also responsible for waves of suicides to which the public authorities must be attentive in order to allow a good approach between the two points of tension. Associations seem to exercise good coordination between extreme solitude and the need for life in community. Thus, we can therefore conclude that the question lends itself to various responses despite an obvious finding on the macroeconomic level but what about the robotisation of society and the transhumanism in this debate? [...]