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The Weakening of Kin Ties: Exploring the Need for Life-World Led Interventions

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  • Gert Schout

    (Department of Medical Humanities, VU University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Visiting address: Van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.)

  • Gideon De Jong

    (Edith Cowan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Building 21, Room 21.423, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA 6027, Australia)

Abstract

The protective features that families and wider social relationships can have are required to meet the demands of life in contemporary Western societies. Choice and detraditionalization, however; impede this source of solidarity. Family Group Conferencing (FGC) and other life-world led interventions have the potential to strengthen primary groups. This paper explores the need for such a social intervention, using insights from sociological and philosophical theories and empirical findings from a case study of the research project ‘FGC in mental health’. This need is understandable considering the weakening of kin ties, the poor qualities of state agencies to mobilise self-care and informal care, its capacity to produce a shift of power from public to private spheres and its capacity to mitigate the co-isolation of individuals, families and communities. A life-world led intervention like FGC with a specific and modest ambition contributes to small-scale solidarity. This ambition is not inclined to establish a broad social cohesion within society but to restore; in terms of the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk; immunity (protection) and solidarity in primary groups, and consequently, resolve issues with those (family, neighbours, colleagues) who share a sphere (a situation, a process, a fate).

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  • Gert Schout & Gideon De Jong, 2018. "The Weakening of Kin Ties: Exploring the Need for Life-World Led Interventions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-12, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:15:y:2018:i:2:p:203-:d:128730
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