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Familia – sediul dezvoltării calitative a speciei umane
Family - The center of qualitative development at the human species

Author(s): Angel Iulian Popescu
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institutul de Antropologie ,,Francisc I. Rainer” al Academiei Române
Keywords: social programming; personality; personal development; alienation; social determinism

Summary/Abstract: Technology, cybernation compete with individuals and family – they are caught into a reductionist equation in which the wide social transformations brought by the accelerated economic globalization are essentially focused on a maximization of the ratio between production, costs and profit – in almost every life segments proving their reliability by low installation and maintenance costs comparatively to humans. The growth of the world population masks low levels of psychological maturation and personal development, an inefficient social integration and a high rate of social exclusion taking atypical forms. The technological progress brought a gradual behavioral alienation, the individual being separated from his current cosmo-geo-biological reality and existence. The survival of the couple social role is determined by the psycho-social maturation of the individual, his personal and professional development, as foundation and contribution, both being essential for supporting a profound partnership, reaching a high level of personal satisfaction, and for nourishing a parent-child relationship with descendants of high social value. A lowering of these values leads to an impoverished anthropological framework and an alienated society. An imbalance appears between the psychological maturation level (the self accomplishment remains low) and the professional one (the effective intellectual or technical ability goes up). The second one, coupled with an exacerbated individualism (the self-centered man and the over-esteemed woman complex) brings an inter-specific competition spirit (undermining not only the partner’s qualitative transformation but also his/her own). The chances of keeping a relationship and building a marital solidarity go down affecting thus the environment itself of the continuous personal development.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 47-59
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian