VIII. At Our Best… ↑
59. We juggle groups and structures.
Almost all modern adults are members of multiple groups, and multiple sorts of groups (family, friends, neighbors, church, work, civil society, and so on).
And almost all modern organizations utilize multiple organizing structures, of the basic types described above.
And each of us, as individuals, need to juggle these different groups and organizing structures in order to live our modern lives.
Words from Others on this Topic
Very large social units are always, in a sense, imaginary. Or, to put it in a slightly different way, there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, phenomena that exist largely, or at least most of the time, in our heads.
David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021, from the book The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Relevant Reference Models
- An element of Developmental Levels
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