Social distance

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"From a private nature walk to an engrossing novel, humans spend a vast amount of time engaged in solitary activities. However, in spite of the fact that individual activities are a prevalent part of everyday life, most sociological research has been devoted to social interactio…

"From a private nature walk to an engrossing novel, humans spend a vast amount of time engaged in solitary activities. However, in spite of the fact that individual activities are a prevalent part of everyday life, most sociological research has been devoted to social interactio…

This work is about the central figure of our contemporary, liquid-modern times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bond…

The uncanny frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires, and the conflicting desires to tighten the bonds yet keep them loose, are the principal themes of this work by Zygmunt Bauman.