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There are mainly three aspects that I would like to point out:
a) Alterations in family relationships as a consequence of technological breakthroughs.Nowadays, interactions are continuously increasing in quantity, variety, frequency and also in length. The alteration of quantity and quality of the interactions produces changes in the relationships. Gergen talks about microwave relationships (they are readily cooked: an intense heat is applied in order to get immediately what will feed them).b) Changes in women in their living conditions and choice.
c) Abandon on all scientific fields, even in the hard sciences, of the search for universally valid definitions, for universally general laws; a concern that had been fundamental for the modern culture. It is the step from Newtonism to Einsteinianism. Regarding our issue, this will enable us to seek operative ideas or definitions and not the ideal, perfect definition that will explain the essence of family.
We are in the renowned POST-MODERNISM, which is characterized by the possibility of "matching" the romantic side of the last century with the "modern" side of the first part of our century.
The concept of Post-modernism is so post-modern that it means many things. On some fields it is a dirty word, a kind of laissez faire, which is really a lack of values. Partly, this mistake is due to the fact that it is very difficult to form a concept of something that is happening at this very moment, and partly, it is also due -I think- to the interpretations made from Lipovetzky's concepts (The vacuum age).
When I say Post-modernism, I follow the ideas of the constructionist Kenneth Gergen, based on the concepts stated by this author in a conference made in Buenos Aires in 1994 and on his works : "The Saturated Ego", "Reality and Relationships" and "Therapy as a social construction".
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