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Structural Conditions of Human Viability: Constraint, Load, and Continuity - A Structural Diagnosis of Advanced Societies
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ISBN13: 9789199128344
Publisher: Auteur Visuel
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What makes a society viable-not merely functional?
Advanced societies can continue to operate while the conditions that sustain long-term human cooperation gradually weaken. Institutions still process cases. Labour markets still allocate work. Households still function. Metrics may even improve. Yet beneath that continuity, load can become increasingly concentrated, buffering can thin, coordination costs can rise, and the capacity for repair and intergenerational transmission can deteriorate.
Structural Conditions of Human Viability develops a structural framework for understanding this distinction between continuity and viability.
Moving from embodied constraint and human load-bearing capacity through dyadic cooperation, institutional proceduralisation, tacit memory, demographic continuity, recognition, and social drift, J. E. Fröderberg asks a deceptively simple question: what must remain possible for a complex society to remain viable over time?
The book develops five linked boundary conditions concerning reproductive continuity, dyadic viability, intergenerational transmission, recognition of contribution, and tolerance for functional asymmetry. It also examines the trade-offs between autonomy and coordination, protection and trust, optionality and commitment, and metric legibility and human coherence.
The argument is deliberately structural rather than moral or partisan. It does not propose a return to earlier social forms, identify villains, or offer a political manifesto. Instead, it provides a diagnostic grammar for examining how locally rational adaptations can cumulatively produce institutional drift, concentrated burden, weakened repair capacity, and long-horizon fragility.
Written for readers of social theory, sociology, public administration, institutional analysis, demography, and contemporary social diagnosis, this volume offers a framework for asking not simply whether modern systems continue to operate, but whether the human conditions underlying that operation can continue to reproduce themselves.
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