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- Title
The Great Story and Its Discontents.
- Authors
Greeley, Andrew M.
- Abstract
This article focuses on the Great Story, which is essentially about the emergence of the new social order that brought about the changes in human relationships. In the emergence of the new social order, secondary relationships were replacing primary relationships, transitory ties were succeeding permanent ones, contract was taking over for community, achievement was replacing ascription, diffuse contacts specific ones, formal relationships informal ones. The founding fathers were impressed by this Great Story of axial change in which a social order which had persisted at least since the fall of Rome was yielding to something quite new. Their various analyses differ from one another, yet each of them noted that humankind was being torn out of a matrix in which it had existed since the memory of man ran not to the contrary. Jim Coleman summarized the story when he wrote the natural relationships were being replaced by artificially created relationships. In a nutshell this is the overarching paradigm which dominates most sociological thinking today and has become one of architectonic assumptions of the modern world.
- Subjects
SOCIAL order; INTERPERSONAL relations; SOCIAL structure; SOCIAL history; COLEMAN, Jim
- Publication
Society, 2002, Vol 40, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0147-2011
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02802968