Individual Investments in Family Relationships over the Coming Decades

This is a speculative, theoretical inquiry into a problem that has occupied contemporary analysts: Within the « fully » industrialized nations what kinds of further changes can we expect? We have described the last several hundred years in the Western nations by saying that they have been moving from Gemeinshaft toward Gesellschaft, toward rationality, materialism, hedonism, bureaucratization, formalism, contract, self-interest, and so on.