Ligatures (sociology)
In sociology, according to Ralf Dahrendorf, ligatures denote the affiliations and ties without which social life is not possible. Dahrendorf described ligatures as “deep cultural ties that put people in a position to find their way through the world of options.” Ligatures in historical societies were absolute, while those in modern societies Dahrendorf considered prone to anomie : “(. ..) in the end nothing works anymore, and everything becomes equally valid, thus indifferent. "
literature
- Ralf Dahrendorf: Life chances. Approaches to social and political theory . Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-37059-6
- Ralf Dahrendorf: The breaking of the ligatures and the utopia of global civil society . In: Risky Freedoms: Individualization in Modern Societies (edited by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim ), Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1994, pp. 421–436. ISBN 3-518-11816-1